THE PRODUCER

Kevin Duffus is a documentary filmmaker who specializes in North Carolina and Outer Banks history. With twenty-nine years of experience in the television industry, Duffus has combined his skills of research, writing, photography and editing to produce a series of feature length documentaries. Those productions include: The Graveyard of the Atlantic-Four Hundred Years of Shipwrecks, Mysteries and Heroic Rescues, a Telly Award winner; The Cape Hatteras Light-America's Greatest Sentinel, winner of the gold Aurora Award; and Move of the Century, documenting the remarkable relocation of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse.

Duffus has produced programs in England about Walter Raleigh's voyages to the New World and in East Africa about drought and famine. In 1989 Duffus traveled around the world to document how Habitat For Humanity is building houses in other countries. In 1981 Duffus co-produced a national documentary on neighborhood efforts to fight crime and shared a George Foster Peabody award for excellence in journalism. Duffus' other honors include the World Hunger Media Award, the Edward R. Murrow award and the National Educators Association award.

With his wife Susan Kavanaugh, Duffus has dedicated his company, Video Marketing Group, to preserving North Carolina's rich and colorful heritage for future generations through their informative, thoroughly researched and visually appealing history and travel films.

Duffus' personal interests include sailing, mountaineering, wilderness skiing and long distance cycling.

Duffus has recently completed three years of research and interviews on the production, War Zone-World War Two Off North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Program - Operation Drumbeat - Kpttt. Reinhard Hardegen
U Boat - Resources - War Zone