Rob Roberts

Madison County Project was my thesis project for the Master’s program in Journalism at the University of North Carolina. The project consisted of a 23-minute documentary film and a companion multimedia site that explored the ballad singing tradition in western North Carolina and the filmmakers, photographers and folklorists who documented it.

The film screened at a number of film festivals and received an Audience Choice Award at the Asheville Film Festival.

The film was donated to  Folkstreams  — a online archive of folklore documentary film that I helped develop before attending UNC.