Lori Joyce
Producer
Idanha Films/Mist Productions
Cell 303.437.5536
lori@idanha.org

Candice Kearns
Associate Producer
Mist Productions/ Idanha Films
303.949.2901
candicekearns@yahoo.com
 

 
Lori Joyce, Producer/Director/Writer
Idanha Films and Mist Productions
photo by Jon Orlando Photography

Lori Joyce has produced nine films.
Lori Joyce, Producer/Director/Writer, Idanha Films and Mist Productions, LLC, was born and raised in Utah and Idaho. Ms. Joyce has independently produced nine documentaries over the last 20 years including the recently completed Emmy nominated, Award winning,The Journey of Sacagawea that is currently airing nationally on PBS. Theatrical screening for The Journey of Sacagawea, include the NexStage Theater in Sun Valley, The Egyptian & The Flicks in Boise as well as being screened at The 2004 Idaho International Film Festival. Joyce is also the producer of a concert documentary film, Breakthrough, with Kris Kristofferson, the Award winning documentary, Shattered Lives, a program on one community’s response to domestic violence and In Remembrance of Martin, a tribute to Martin Luther King which aired nationally on PBS for three years and was recently released on DVD. Ms. Joyce worked as associate producer on the PBS Peabody Award winning documentary, Hearts & Minds: Teens and Mental Illness.
She named her non-profit production company after the Shoshone word for Idaho. Idanha means Jewel of the Mountain. The name seemed to fit when she founded Idanha Films as a non-profit corporation two decades ago in order to give her full focus to developing documentaries to educate her audiences regarding important social issues.


Lori Joyce founded her new production company, Mist Productions, LLC, with "Tribe All" foremost in her mind and named it accordingly.

Lori Joyce
Producer/Writer/Director

Filmography

The Journey of Sacagawea, 2004.  A one-hour television production on the life of Sacagawea.

• Emmy Award nominee
• Aired nationally on PBS
• Non-broadcast distribution: PBS Video
   

Shattered Lives, 1998. A documentary on family violence and how one county addresses the problem.

• Distribution: American Public Television

Breakthrough, 1989. A concert documentary performed by Kris Kristofferson and the Border Lords.

• Distribution: Oh Boy Records, Nashville

The Healing of Brian Wilson, 1988. An exploration of nonviolence through the story of activist Brian Wilson, linking the loss of his legs in an act of resistance to the suffering of the people of Nicaragua.

• Broadcast distribution: Coe and Associates, New York
• Home video distribution: MPI Chicago

In Remembrance of Martin, 1986.  A biographical special about Martin Luther King.

• Declared an official event of the Martin Luther King holiday
• Three prime time broadcasts on PBS on over 200 stations
• Broadcast on Channel 4, England
• Broadcast throughout English-speaking Africa (South Africa excepted)
• Translated into French for French Television broadcast
• PBS presentation: WNET, New York
• Foreign broadcast distribution: Coe and Associates, New York
• Released on DVD by Paramount Home Video and PBS Video

The Arms Race Within, 1985. The story of the nuclear train and a community’s nonviolent resistance to it, featuring activists Jim and Shelley Douglas.

• PBS distribution: Central Education Network
• Cable distribution: Catholic Communications Network
• Home video distribution: MPI, Chicago
• Distribution to foreign home video: Concord Films, Ltd., UK.

Christmas Eve, City of Peace, 1984. Docu-poem takes a look at the historical enmities and the hope for peace in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

• PBS distribution: Central Educational Network
• National cablecast: KTVT, Dallas

Wonderlust, 1983. A look at Hemingway’s France.

• Hosted by Jack and Joan Hemingway

The Truth about Papa, 1982. A documentary on the life of Ernest Hemingway.

• Hosted by David Hemings

Candice Kearns,
Associate Producer
Ms. Kearns has worked as production assistant on several award-winning productions by Idanha Films and Idaho Public Television including the PBS Peabody Award winning documentary, Hearts & Minds: Teens and Mental Illness, as host and narrator. She has been an active member and organizer with the environmental and peace movement.

photo by Jon Orlando Photography

Mission Statment
Idanha Films, Inc., is a non-profit corporation. Its mission is to produce documentary films and videos which will give voice to those who traditionally have had no audience, including women, children, indigenous populations, and defenders of social justice and of the natural environment. Idanha Films has chosen to work with the visual media of film and video because they provide a powerful means of illuminating an issue, and can accommodate a wide variety of presentational approaches. Idanha Films is particularly committed to using a framework that is grounded in the guiding principles of anthropology and history. These principles underlie the broad context of the story being told, and provide the basis for its contemporary relevance to the viewer.


Lori Joyce and Candice Kearns
at the March for Women’s Lives