AIMS Documentary Productions

Professional television production services include project development, scriptwriting, directing and interviewing. We also can help realize creative reenactments and dramatizations.
Field and studio videography is available in SD, 24p, and HD. We also offer broadcast quality editing services.

AIMS Video Services has a national broadcast reputation. Many of our documentaries are aired by PBS and licensed with American Public Television.

Titles available for sale:

Documentaries

• Under Quabbin: The Search for the Lost Towns
• Under the Connecticut: Diving & Exploring the River
• The Great Flood of 1936: The Connecticut River Story
• Dynamite, Whiskey & Wood: Connecticut River Log Drives

Work in progress: The Spirit of Providence

Historically religious women have made enormous contributions to American society as teachers, nurses and social workers, yet they remain invisible. They founded, staffed and often funded many of the first non-profit hospitals, schools and social service institutions across the country. On the Civil War battlefields, Catholic Sisters were some of the best trained nurses who compassionately nursed both sides.

This documentary looks at the history of Catholic Sisters in America and specifically the Sisters of Providence, who came to Holyoke, MA in 1873 to aid orphans, the poor, and the sick. They developed a comprehensive network of non-profit health care and social service facilities across Western Massachusetts that grew and changed to meet the community ‘s needs.  Today they operate a health care system, which is the fourth largest employer in Western Massachusetts and they sponsor a variety of social service ministries. From providing health care to the homeless, shelters, drug rehab, and soup kitchens these women remain a vital force for social justice.

This project has received pre-production funding from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and the Holyoke Cultural Council.

For underwriting or more information contact:
Elizabeth Wilda: wilda@acad.umass.edu or call 413-545-2501.