blueberry hill productions

Telling Authentic Stories through an Unexpected Lens

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BLUEBERRY HILL PRODUCTIONS

Through skillful storytelling, extensive research, and creative use of imagery and sound, Blueberry Hill Productions introduces little known stories about remarkable women – and the communities they build – to millions worldwide.

The company’s films have been shown on Netflix and PBS primetime, broadcast worldwide, screened at prominent museums and film festivals, and used widely in classrooms and community groups. The films and websites created by BHP have won the primetime EMMY for Outstanding Nonfiction, the George Foster Peabody Award, the Kodak Vision Award, the E-Learning Design Award, and numerous others.   

 

previous projects

Founded by Laurie Kahn, Blueberry Hill Productions is a Massachusetts-based producer of high quality media projects, including A Midwife’s Tale, DoHistory.org, TUPPERWARE!, The Popular Romance Project, What is Love? Romance in the Digital Age and Love Between the Covers.

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A MIDWIFE’S TALE

A Midwife's Tale (adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning book) unfolds like a detective story – the true tale of two women, two hundred years apart, linked by the diary one of them left behind. In the film, we follow author Laurel Ulrich as she makes sense of the massive but cryptic diary of 18th century midwife Martha Ballard. Beginning as a documentary, the film slowly evolves into a drama as Laurel gradually takes us into Martha’s world.

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TUPPERWARE!

Tupperware! tells the remarkable story
of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught saleswoman who built him an empire out of bowls that burped. Together they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams and empowered a small army of working class women. But they couldn’t see
that they needed one another.


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LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS

Love Between the Covers is a feature-length documentary film about the little-known, surprisingly powerful community of women who read and write romance novels. The film follows five very different romance authors and their fans over three years. These women are funny, poignant, and extremely likeable. We come to. understand the strong bonds that their love stories create.

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Current projects

Blueberry Hill Productions is currently in the midst of

developing two primary projects.

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JERRIE COBB & THE MERCURY 13

Jerrie Cobb & the Mercury 13 is a nine-hour dramatic series set at the dawn of the space age, based on the true story of  Jerrie Cobb, a painfully shy but intrepid pilot (Pilot of the Year in 1959) and the 12 other female pilots who ace the grueling “right stuff” astronaut tests in 1960 and 1961.  When the period’s power houses (99% male) tell them they can’t be astronauts, the female pilots won’t take no for an answer.

Laurie Kahn is the originator of the series, the writer of the series pilot, and one of the series’ producers.

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TUPPERWARE: THE MUSICAL

Tupperware: the Musical is based on Blueberry Hill Production’s award-winning documentary about self-taught marketing genius Brownie Wise and the working class women she inspired to sell Tupperware in living rooms across the globe.  The story of Brownie’s dramatic rise and fall lends itself to song and dance. It’s a story waiting for a musical.

Working with the show’s composer, lyricist, and director, Laurie Kahn will share what she knows and provide the creative team with raw material that will be transformed into moving songs and rousing musical/dance numbers.

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