HEALTH DISPARITIES (W.T.)
For Vital Pictures and California Newsreel

Eric Stange is producing and directing one episode in a multi-part series about how race, class and socio-economic status affect the health of Americans. This episode looks at health and poverty in the Marshall Islands.

TROUVADORE (W.T.)
Last Voyage of an African Slaver
Windward Media and KUHT-Houston
www.trouvadore.org

Eric Stange, Consulting Director

In 1841, a Spanish slaveship named Trouvadore wrecked on the shores of East Caicos in the British West Indies. In a strange twist of fate, it had wrecked in a place where slavery had long been outlawed. Everyone aboard survived the wreck, and the would-be slaves were rescued and freed by local authorities.

In collaboration with archeologists, historians, geneticists, and descendants of the slave-ship's survivors, Windward Media and HoustonPBS are producing a documentary about the search for Trouvadore, and about the doomed slaveship's long-forgotten history and legacy.

This one-hour film draws on the tools of archeology, anthropology and DNA forensics to solve a 160-year-old mystery of slavery and identity. While it brings an exciting archeological excavation to life, the film will also tell the story of one man's determined efforts to trace his African roots through a historic shipwreck.