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  About the film:
The Appalachians: The Film
About Appalachia
Filming with Johnny Cash
Tune-In Info
Study Guide
 
  Related campaigns:
Mountaintop removal & coal mining
The Southern Appalachian Clean Air Campaign
 
  Read more:
Dethroning King Coal

    The Appalachians

    Mari-Lynn Evans, Executive Producer

    Mari-lyn EvansMari-Lynn Evans is the Executive Producer of many television and video programs including "Living Well: A Guide to Healthy Aging", a 26 week series for PBS and the FOX Health Network.Underwriting for the series was provided by unprecedented funding from The Department of Health and Human Services. Research funding was provided by The National Institutes of Health (SBIR) and endorsing organizations include the United Nations, The National Institute of Aging, and the American Geriatrics Society. She also has produced and directed the "Living Well" five part video series, book, and web site funded by Times Mirror and distributed through QVC, PBS, and retail outlets. This series recently won a National Mature Media Award.

    Mari-Lynn is the Executive Producer of "Changes", a magazine format program hosted by Nick Clooney, which is another SBIR funded program airing on the FOX Health Network; the children’s television program and video " Geezbo’s Alley", the first multimedia SBIR NCI Fast-Track; the documentary “Standing in the Safety Zone” hosted by Surgeon General David Satcher airing on PBS and FOX Health Network; and "John Glenn: The International Year of Older Adults" for PBS. She is also the Executive Producer of "Integrative Medicine: Body, Mind, and Spirit", a 13 week series for American’s Health Network and the FOX Health Network hosted by Naomi Judd. She is also the Executive Producer of a live audience hour special of the same name for the network.

    Mari-Lynn has produced, scripted, and directed several commercials, videos, and infomercials. She has also scripted, developed and produced many multimedia products for Fortune 500 companies and premier aging organizations, including the American Geriatrics Society. She serves as a media and brand development consultant to international corporate, media, governmental, and support organizations and is the lead consultant on the senior market to Procter & Gamble.

    Mari-Lynn has extensive experience conducting research and developing multimedia programs receiving major funding awards from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Aging. She is also the recipient of the first Fast-Track multimedia funding from the National Cancer Institute and is a grant recipient from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Health Care Financing Administration, and many other national organizations and foundations. She is also the recipient of several national awards including the 1999 US Small Business Administration Tibbetts Award and a Bronze Award in the National Mature Media Awards. Mari-Lynn has degrees in psychology, gerontology and women studies. She is from Bulltown, West Virginia.