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4Tell Films is a production company specializing in documentaries, arts and music, and educational programming. 4Tell’s Emmy award-winning director, Jef Judin, along with partner, Brenda Varner Judin, have led a creative team that has produced numerous documentaries to illuminate social & philanthropic causes along with entertaining concert films and music videos. The company created and produced, You’ve Gotta Move, an innovative and engaging arts-infused, music and movement Childhood Obesity Prevention DVD series for schools. Along with its own projects, 4Tell Films offers production services from script development, casting, filming, editing, graphic design, packaging and distribution for clients.

Director/Producer - Jef Judin is a 30-year veteran of innovative television, music and multimedia programming. Judin began his media career in Los Angeles producing READ-A-VISION™, a literacy-enhancing process utilizing television to teach reading skills. In 1986, he set up the Highland Entertainment Complex, an incubator for independent production companies in Hollywood. Judin joined Bob Abel/ Synapse Technologies in 1988 to create Columbus – A Journey to Discovery.

 As Executive in Charge of Production for Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) in Mississippi for seven years, Jef was responsible for hundreds of productions distributed regionally, nationally, and internationally including the Emmy-winning BBC co-production, Richard Wright – Black Boy, and Return To The River, the Emmy-winning exploration into the history of the music and culture along the Mississippi River narrated by James Earl Jones.

Jef Judin co-founded 4Tell Films in 2001 and has produced projects as diverse as the documentary Project Safe Neighborhood for the U.S. Justice Department to Bobby Rush-Live at Ground Zero, a concert film shot in high-definition digital video and recorded in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound on location in actor Morgan Freeman’s famed Clarksdale, MS juke joint.  In 2005, Judin produced The Keys to the Quarter, a documentary on the legendary French Quarter finished days before Hurricane Katrina.  Judin produced & narrated Polar Dreams and Trekking the Gobi, featuring celebrated explorer and wildlife photographer, Helen Thayer.  Judin and 4Tell Films has pioneered work in the field of Childhood Obesity Prevention with the production of two music and movement exercise DVDs, You’ve Gotta Move, for K-2 classrooms and Grades 3, 4 & 5. Jef directed and edited both DVDs featuring original songs and choreography designed for use in the classroom to meet the new federally mandated P.E. requirements.  

Writer/Producer – Brenda Varner Judin is a Speech and Theatre graduate of the University of Mississippi.  Brenda studied in New York with renowned acting teacher Stella Adler. During eleven years in NYC and seven years in L.A., she worked as an actor, casting director and writer for television and educational multimedia projects. As Managing Editor of Parents & Kids magazine, she won two Gold Awards for Excellence from the Parenting Publications of America organization.

Brenda works as a voice-over artist for a diverse range of projects including a nationally touring, mixed media exhibition featuring the work of acclaimed artist, H.C. Porter, and is a freelance writer for numerous media outlets where she writes creative non-fiction along with book and movie reviews.

As co-founder of 4Tell Films, Brenda has produced projects for the MS Arts Commission’s Whole Schools Initiative; the Unita Blackwell Young Women’s Leadership Institute for the Children’s Defense Fund, Delta State University’s Summer Arts Institute and Heritage House for the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation. Brenda serves as writer on many 4Tell Films projects including Polar Dreams and Trekking the Gobi featuring renowned explorer Helen Thayer.

Brenda was Writer/Producer on the You’ve Gotta Move music & movement Childhood Obesity Prevention DVD series. Working in concert with songwriters, she created a cross-curriculum blueprint for the production that allowed students and teachers to meet curriculum goals in several subject areas (Language Arts, Health, Science, Music, Dance and Foreign Language) in addition to addressing new mandated P.E. standards. Ms. Judin recently wrote, produced and narrated, Five Years After Katrina, a documentary chronicling the recovery efforts on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for LESM-the lead agency in Katrina relief efforts.

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