Tom Keiter
Filmmaker/Communications Consultant
LEED® Accredited Professional
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 (PA DEP)
- Consultant to U.S. General Services Administration
- Faculty and professor-in-charge, Film/Video Program, Penn State University 1982-1997
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 twelve 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; utilized 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 for The Pittsburgh Convention and Visitor’s 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 minute AIA CE program developed as a programmed DVD presentation for architects and Interior design groups
- PA Sustainable Energy and Energy @ Home – each 30 minutes, television productions promoting sustainable energy and energy saving home design (public television)
Projects supporting development/fundraising:
- Capital Heath Foundation - consulting and production for this Trenton, NJ-based heathcare system.
- Pennsylvania State University - production for For The Future, The Campaign for Penn State Students
- Interfaith Power - production supporting development for a faith-based non-profit.
- 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
- 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 USGBC affiliate
Education
- Bachelor of Science, Major in Community Development with High Distinction, Penn State University
- Graduate Studies, University of Chicago
