Goose Pond documentary receives second Telly Award

Thursday, April 19, 2012

By Nick Schneider, Assistant Editor

The recently produced documentary film "Goose Pond: The Story of a Wetland & Its Neighbors" has been awarded a second 2012 Bronze Telly Award.

The latest award notification came to producer Bill Barnes on Monday in the category "TV programs/segments."

According to the notification letter, "The online community has spoken and rated your work a winner. The Telly Awards receives over 13,000 entries annually from the finest ad agencies, production companies, TV stations, cable companies, interactive agencies and corporations in the world. It is a remarkable achievement to be selected for recognition."

The previously announced Telly Award in late March came in the category of nature/wildlife.

Barnes, a Linton native who now lives in Charlotte, N.C., has now won three Silver Telly Award and eight Bronze Telly Awards.

The film traces the history of the Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area from its pre-historic beginnings as a glacier basin 125,000 years ago to its current day restoration as one of the Midwest's largest wetland areas. It also talks about the tremendous tourism and education potential that the 8,000-plus acre fish and wildlife area possesses.

The film producer began work on the Goose Pond film in 2005, when he was still working on the "You'll Like Linton" documentary -- also a Telly Award winning production.

Barnes said it took years of planning, interviewing, filming and editing to produce the film that features Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area.

The Telly Awards, founded in 1979, honors outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions, and online commercials, video and films.

"We are so proud of this program," Barnes commented in an email sent to the Greene County Daily World. "I thought this additional award would be great chance to thank everyone who voted online and to remind them that the show will premiere in Indiana this Sunday, April 22 at 2 p.m. on WTIU in Bloomington."

Barnes said WTIU has permission to run the 60-minute documentary for a two-year period.

WTIU will also air an edited 30-minute version without the "struggle" elements and it is called "The Four Seasons of Goose Pond," he said.

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Ahh yes, Goosepond. We the taxpayers payed millions of dollars to drain Goosepond, then paid millions to purchase the property and then flood it. How many people does this benefit? I can answer that, not many. This should have fell under the waste, fraud, and abuse catagory. That money could have been used by something that would have a benefit to lots of folks.

-- Posted by cubfan on Thu, Apr 19, 2012, at 4:45 PM
Nothing like a Goosepond article to bring out a naysayer like cubfan who is ready to pounce on anything positive that is attempted in or around Linton. The land was never any good for farming although many owners tried. Cubfan, try to understand if you are capable, the goosepond is a wildlife refuge. It is not, primarily, there to benefit you or me, although many will benefit in various ways. Ducks Unlimited and other private concerns provided much of the funding for the project. The amount of taxpayer dollars were not as significant as you may think. Waste, fraud, and abuse? Give me a break.

-- Posted by lintonian31 on Thu, Apr 19, 2012, at 10:50 PM

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