NEW DAY FILMS BY
Tom Shepard:

Scout's Honor

Knocking

Producer's Web Site:
www.scouts-honor.com

Tom Shepard produced and directed Scout's Honor, an PBS-funded documentary about the anti-gay policy of the Boy Scouts of America and the grassroots campaign to overturn it. Scout's Honor won the Audience Award for Best Documentary and Freedom of Expression Award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival as well as Grand Prize at the 2001 USA Film Festival and Best Social Issue Documentary by the Council on Family Relations. Scout's Honor broadcast nationally when it opened POV's 14th season on June 19, 2001. Prior to Scout's Honor, Shepard co-produced and edited Camp Lavender Hill which aired on public television, Free Speech Television, and CNN World.

Shepard recently finished co-directing and producing KNOCKING in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS) about Jehovah's Witnesses and their contributions to medicine and civil liberties. KNOCKING broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens in May of 2007.

Previously, Shepard worked as an editor at National Public Radio for Linda Wertheimer and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. At NPR, he co-produced Listening to America, an audio documentary on the history of public radio in America. He graduated from Stanford University where he majored in biology and film. He curently lives in San Francisco and is directing a feature documentary about kids and science.

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