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The Classic, IT'S GRITS! has been digitally remastered in a new 30th Anniversary Edition with bonus footage.   (Shown on the Southern Lens ETV Series)

          

Inquire about Stan Woodward's "GRITS IS SINGULAR" film lecture with clips from his Southern Folk Heritage Documentary collection by e-mailing The Woodward Studio Ltd at - woodwardstudio@charter.net

          GRITS IS SINGULAR

... a two hour film lecture featuring IT'S GRITS and clips from Woodward's films that followed which grew out of the making of this Southern documentary classic .Hear the filmmakers personal journeyas he traveled throughout the South documenting ancestral folk heritage food traditions and the way they form the threads in the fabric of Southern Americana.

Tailored to Local Arts Councils, Museums, University Media Studies and Southern Studies programs,and folklife programs and festivals.

(Option for Local Arts Councils: the filmmakercan add a workshop componen for the community that teaches the art of handheld video using home video cameras for preserving folklife and folk heritage stories and traditions within their own families or communities. This shows the simplicity and authenticity of the style of shooting called "vox populi"..in .the voice of the people.
                                                                     

E-mail woodwardstudio@charter.net for details >> more information


THE WORKS


> BURGOO! New Release!
> BRUNSWICK STEW
(Virginia Tradition)
> BRUNSWICK STEW
(Georgia Tradition)
> BARBECUE and HOMECOOKING
> CAROLINA HASH:
A Taste of South Carolina
> COOPERATIVE GROCERY
> ERHARDT FIVE & DIME
> IT’S GRITS!
> HALLOWED GROUND:
Primitive Camp meetings
of the SC Low Country
> LORD HAVE MERCY!
OLGERS’ STORE
> ROCKFISH MUDDLE
> SEEING INTO BEING:
The Scrap Iron Art of
Charlie Grimsley
> SOUTHERN ROUTES
(Five Volumes)
> SOUTHERN STEWS COLLECTION (Seven Volumes)
> SOUTHERN STEWS:
A Taste of the South
> STEWBILEE: A Brunswick
Stew Folk Heritage Festival
> THE MORRIS CHRONICLE
> THE OLGERS CHRONICLE
> THE SHEEP STEW OF DUNDAS
> WE JUST CALL IT “CUSH”

WELCOME TO THE WOODWARD STUDIO             

 Where we love   Grits,  and ...

   Barbecue,   Carolina hash, and all kinds of Southern stews...  

...and where you can find Stan Woodward's award-winning Southern culture & folklife documentaries capturing the South's folk heritage foodways and traditions - including a rare two-disc set documenting the historic primitive camp meetings that gather annually in the South Carolina Low Country - unbroken traditions whose origin dates back to the late 18th century.


In Final Stage of Editing - NOTHING to PROVE:

                                       Mac Arnold's Return to the Blues

This documentary

took five years to shoot and 170 hours of footage to edit. "The most challenging editing job I have faced to date," says producer/director Stan Woodward.

:"I began following the return of Mac and his Plate Full O' Blues band in the Spring of 2005. My style of storytelling is shot with a handheld camera in the first person, so everywhere Mac went I tried to follow. Very quickly I learned that Mac's remarkable journey would take off like a rocket, as this "natuaral" rejoined his brothers and re-staked his place in blues history...but with a new purpose and root music uniquely his own.""

     - Stan Woodward


PROJECTED COMPLETION - SUMMER of 2008  - Watch for notice of Premier   Sponsor needed for Post Production

 

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IT's GRITS!  30th ANNIVERSARY RELEASE

This NEW RELEASE of the classic documentary on the South's favorite foodway contains new bonus footage at the end - shot especially for the film's 30th anniversary.

... now available for $30 plus $2.00 Shipping and Handling

When purchasing GRITS this summer you may place an order along with it for any other documentary at $10.00 off of the second DVD. Offer good through August 2009.

  These orders must be placed by e-mail only to  woodwardstudio@charter.net                                                               

- WE SHIP UPON RECEIPT OF PAYMENT... CHECKS ONLY - Made Out to:        

                                                                      THE WOODWARD STUDIO LIMITED

                                                           Mail to - P.O. BOX 5163 - Greenville, SC - 29606

MORE ABOUT GRITS

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You can read about and sample all of our documentaries when you go to "The Works"  

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ALSO AVAILABLE :

2-DVD Edition of

Hallowed Ground

Primitive Campmeetings that share common Methodist roots in early America when Bishop Frances Asbury rode into SC in the late 1700's and planted what would become the spiritual roots that spawned five campmeetings - two African American and three Anglo American - with primitive buildings that are still standing and active today and return thousands who were born and raised here back to their roots every year in the fall ... and all within a 20 mile radius in the South Carolina Lowcountry

 

 

 

 

BURGOO

              Two Versions:

                    Original 2 hour Version   &  1 hour PBS Version

                         > VIEW VIDEO CLIP            > VIEW SLIDESHOW

 

 

"BURGOO!" was inspired by Stan's film, SOUTHERN STEWS

which follows the ritual cooking of Southern communal stews and stew-

masters,   showing  how these iron pot cooking traditions are connected


STILLS FROM BURGOO!