Bill Rogers has enjoyed the move to digital filmmaking. He’s a story-teller and he uses the tools he has at hand big, small, sophisticated or simple.

As a director/producer he has spent years with characters to find out what makes them tick: 7 years with ski sensation Bode Miller (FLYING DOWNHILL XDance best biography); 5 years in an institution for people labeled mentally disabled (FRONT WARDS, BACK WARDS ITVS/WGBH co-production); 6 years with his uncle, a passionate voice of the blues (MY UNCLE JOE, Emmy nomination).

He’s also written the stories/treatment/narration for many of his works and has acted in film and on stage, working with acclaimed director and playwright Tony Kusher (Angels in America) for whom Bill played The Cook in Tony’s production of MOTHER COURAGE by Bertolt Brecht. Bill has also narrated many media projects.

As an educator he has given cameras to kids and helped them order their vision. He first taught film/TV/screenwriting at the University of New Hampshire, then at Keene State College and finally led the media program at Portsmouth Public Schools. He has consulted to teachers and kids grades k – 12 and is a roster artist with the NH State Council on the Arts. He developed a program with the Massachusetts Department of Health to help middle school students create PSA’s on smoking (“The Truth About Smoking”) throughout the Commonwealth of MA.

As a cinematographer he’s comfortable with big cameras and small: from the 35mm model “Russian Film Camera 5” which he used to record people at the last moments of the Soviet Union as the Berlin Wall went down; he uses a tiny digital still camera for his video blog; and he uses a broadcast shoulder mount camera to capture the full color and texture of our world.

As an editor he’s helped Melissa Paly tell the story of sprawl in northern New England and what communities are doing about it (LIVABLE LANDSCAPES ITVS/Ch 11 NH); fisherman speak of a better way to manage the catch; and how folks are preserving their land. He helped Tom Jackson lay down the truth about ExxonMobil and their “contribution” to climate change (OUT OF BALANCE).

He likes the control of fine machinery and the freedom of inexpensive digital tools. And knows how and when to use each.