Tom Keiter

Filmmaker/Communications Consultant

Selected Experience

• Creative principal, groupPositive, independent communications design production group
• Director Creative Development, Penn State Public Broadcasting (PBS)
• Communications consultant to Building Green in PA initiative, Pennsylvania Governor’s Green Government Council, and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
• Consultant to U.S. General Services Administration
• Faculty and professor-in-charge, Film/Video Program, Penn State University, 1982-1997
• Co-authored The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability, John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Selected Consulting/Production

Executive producer/project architect on selected green design-related public service/educational projects:

• High Performance Building: Perspective & Practice – with Rocky Mountain Institute, 30 minutes. The business case for green building featuring 12 project profiles.  Downloadable at RMI.org.  
• Liquid Assets – a national public media/outreach initiative on wet infrastructure. Public broadcasting release in partnership with American Society of Civil Engineers. 
• Willow School – 12 minutes, a profile of an independent K-8 school that integrates green building into curriculum
• Building Green in PA, series of seven video programs advocating green building, including:
  • Pennsylvania’s First Green Building – 30 minutes, broadcast, DVD distribution
  • Lessons Learned: The First Five Years – 30 minutes, broadcast, DVD distribution; used in LEED^® training
  • Better Places To Learn – 18 minutes, features and benefits of high performance schools
  • Making the Case – 15 minutes, targeted to business and commercial developers
• This Remarkable Place – 12 minutes, produced for the Pittsburgh Green Building Alliance and The Heinz Endowments; the story of Pittsburgh’s green Convention Center. Version also produced for The Pittsburgh Convention and Visitors Bureau.
• Workplace 20-20 – 18 minutes, produced for U.S. General Services Administration to promote organizational shift in practice
• Integrated Design, LEED and Materials – 60 minutes, AIA CE program developed as a programmed DVD presentation for architects and interior design groups
• PA Energy and Energy @ Home – each 30 minutes, television productions promoting sustainable energy and energy saving home design (public television)

Projects supporting development/fundraising: 

• Capital Health Foundation – consulting and production for this Trenton, NJ based healthcare system
• Penn State University – production for For The Future, The Campaign for Penn State Students
• Interfaith Works – production supporting development for a faith-based nonprofit
• Rutgers University – production supporting capital campaign

Projects in development:

• Geospatial Revolution – national public media project on geospatial technologies and implications, view trailer and project at geospatialrevolution.psu.edu 
• Energy, Business, and Policy – a national public media project 

Awards and Affiliations

• LEED AP^®
• American Association of Engineering Societies, National Journalism Award, 2008
• Multiple Emmy Awards
• CINE Golden Eagle
• International Film and Video Festival, multiple Silver Screen Awards
• American Film Festival, multiple Blue and Red Ribbon Awards
• National Educational Film Festival
• Council for the Advancement and Support of Higher Education
• Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence
• Green Building Association of Central Pennsylvania, a U.S. Green Building Council affiliate

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Community Development with High Distinction, Penn State University
• Graduate Studies, University of Chicago