With These Hands Project Featured on CBS Sunday Morning

NEW YORK (December 23, 2001) -- A scene from "With These Hands," a documentary about four Northwest Michigan family farms produced by MediaVia, aired on CBS Sunday Morning today in the show's annual feature, "Gifts to Us." The segment showed an aerial scene of Island View Farm on the Old Mission Peninsula.

The non-profit journalistic-documentary project includes a 35-minute video documentary, 52-page magazine with a regional distribution of 55,000 copies, ten-part radio series airing throughout Northwest Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, national award-winning website containing audio, video and hundreds of photographs, and a traveling gallery exhibit of photographs.

With These Hands was produced and directed by MediaVia as a journalistic documentary in association with the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, and with primary funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Support was provided by the Old Mission Conservancy, the Leelanau Conservancy, and the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation. Additional support was provided by FujiFilm USA, Digieffects, LaCie USA, Marantz-Superscope, Cherry Republic and Kenyon Laboratories.