Sedgwick Productions is finishing its third in a series of Northwestern University documentaries for the Big Ten Network, with the working title “Nanotechnology.”
The doc focuses on Northwestern’s International Institute for Nanotechnology, where “they’ve assembled a team of physicists, chemists, materials scientists and engineers, working collaboratively,” said Richard Carra, “Nanotechnology” director and Sedgwick president.
“There are a lot of significant breakthroughs on the horizon in terms of potentially curing cancer, solving the energy crisis, and eliminating spinal cord paralysis,” Carra said of the Nanotechnology collaboration.
The half-hour “Nanotechnology” will debut this fall on the Big Ten Network, which is now available nationally on Comcast Cable. Northwestern’s University Relations department hired Sedgwick to supply content to the network, as all Big Ten partner schools do to supplement the station’s primary focus on sports programming.
Sedgwick’s first Northwestern documentary covered the Evans Scholars, a caddy scholarship organization with ties to the Western Golf Association. Their second Northwestern doc, “DM ?08,” premiered in June on the Big Ten Network and continues to run.
“DM ?08” follows Northwestern’s student run, 30-hour Dance Marathon, which this year included 750 students and raised $900,000 for the Bare Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation and the Evanston Community Foundation.
“We’re getting back to doing more documentary work,” Carra said. “That’s the way we started off, but we’d gotten away from documentary doing more client services business over the years.”
