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 ...whether booking Stan Woodward's popular "Grits is Singular" film lecture or ordering  GRITS!, or subscribing to the  

I Want More  Grits section, or purchasing    Barbecue & Homecooking , Carolina Hash, or the Southern stews ensemble,   

Stan Woodward's award-winning Southern culture documentaries capturing the South's folk heritage foodways & traditions are available on this website.

YOU NEED SOME GRITS!

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    IT'S GRITS! Digitally Remastered and now available for purchase in it's 30 year Anniversary updated version.

                 ORDER NOW !

 

ALSO....Inquire about Stan Woodward's "GRITS IS SINGULAR" film program ...on-site discussion presentation by the filmmaker, with clips from his award-winning Southern Folk Heritage Documentary collection.                     E-mail us at -  woodwardstudio@charter.net ...       to learn more and to arrange a booking.

          GRITS IS SINGULAR

... a two hour film lecture featuring IT'S GRITS and clips from Woodward's films that followed this classic.  Hear stories about the filmmaker's travels throughout the South and the people who make up the fabric of Southern Americana.

         Tailored to Local Arts Councils, Museums, University Media Studies and Southern Studies programs, folk studies and folklife programs . (Option for Local Arts Councils: the filmmaker can add a hands-on workshop componen for the community that teaches the art of handheld videography using video cameras brought from home. The one-two-threes of preserving folklife and folk heritage stories and traditions within our own families or communities begins with 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”

 TWO NEW RELEASES NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE:

NOTHING TO PROVE: The Story of Mac Arnold's Return to the Blues                               Now in Two Versions:   

...order via Paypal:

2-disk Director's Cut - the full story  (1 Hr 28 min per disc) - Part One: The Legacy / Part Two: Mac Is Back               "This is the full and complete story that I feel does justice to the 170 hours we shot ."  - Stan Woodward, Producer

...order by e-mail  to  woodwardstudio@charter.net  

Full Length Feature  ( 1 Hr 57 min ) ...    

                                                                                                                                                                          

                                                          Mac Arnold and Plate Full O' Blues

           NOTHING TO PROVE:

          Two Disc Director's Cut

                 Photo © 2007 Stephen Stinson                  w ww.stephenstinson.com

    

                   NOTHING TO PROVE

                  Full  Length Feature

                          Photo © 2009 Brian S. Kelley

                 w ww.briankelleyphotography.com


  Order Today & Receive Clippings From PREMIERE      Order Today & Receive Clippings From PREMIERE

You can read about and view clips of all our documentaries when you go to: "The Works" ... on this website

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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 shot especially for the film's 30th anniversary ... now available for $30 plus $3.00 S&H

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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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

"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

 

                         > VIEW VIDEO CLIP            > VIEW SLIDESHOW

 

 

STILLS FROM BURGOO!