Summer's Journey Independent Film

William Kist is an award-winning producer, writer/director, and composer, with a credit list that includes both fiction and nonfiction film and video productions. Kist is the writer/director of an independent feature Summer’s Journey, the result of a film collaboration that spans 17 years; and is in post-production on his original musical screenplay, Field Trip.

Drawing upon his experience as an educator, Kist has worked as a producer for the streaming video “Project AdLit” for the Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science and Reading, and as Associate Producer/Editor for the “Breaking the Mold” videos and teleconferences for the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. Kist was also the Segment Producer/Writer for The Learning Age, for local PBS stations 45/59, for which he was the recipient of an Ohio Educational Broadcasting Network Commission Honorable Mention; and Music Composer for local PBS production Our Family, for which he was nominated for a regional Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition.

Kist also has a lengthy career as an educator, and is currently an assistant professor at Kent State University, Stark Campus, where he teaches literacy methods courses for pre-service teachers, focusing especially on uses of multimedia in the classroom. He has been a middle school and high school English teacher; language arts and social studies curriculum coordinator; and a consultant and trainer for school districts across the United States.