Melissa Godoy
Director/Producer
Godoy develops independent film and programming for public television. She was most recently Line Producer of A Lion in the House by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, which premiered at Sundance and aired on primetime PBS through Independent Lens in 2006. Godoy is currently project director of a CPB-funded national outreach project for youth around issues of childhood cancer called MyLion. Classical Quest, a film she directed that compares classical music to time travel, has been airing on public television from 2000 to the present. In 2004, Godoy completed production on the interactive virtual community for violinists, violinmasterclass.com, currently used in over 25 countries. Godoy was the coordinating producer and a director for the award-winning NEA & NEHfunded High Definition installation in the Cincinnati Art Museum. In 2003, she served as script supervisor to Julie Dash on Brothers Of The Borderland; and in 2004, she directed What Is Freedom?, both large screen projections at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. During the last presidential election, Godoy was a field producer/cinematographer for the documentary feature, Election Day, by Katy Chevigny. Her programs have earned numerous industry awards including two regional Emmys. She produces Viewfinder, a monthly talk show about independent filmmaking on Cincinnati’s public television station, CET.
Eileen Littig
Executive Producer
Working in concert with Wisconsin Public Television, Eileen Littig has had five television series in national distribution (The Folkbook, Creative Dramatics: A Classroom Tool, Issues for the Millennium ) and has received more than 100 national and international television production awards, including two Midwest Emmys. In 1992 she earned a Gold Medal from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for Sexual Orientation: Between the Labels. More recently, Game Over (2007) about women in prison earned a Parents‘ Choice recommendation and You Don‘t Want to Live in My House (2006) about teens in prison was selected by the Young Adult Library Services Association as one of best programs for young adults. Many of Eileen’s award-winning half-hour documentaries on teen social issues are broadcast statewide during in-school time on Wisconsin Public Television, as well as by other public television networks and stations. She has just begun a new program about women and children in poverty. Littig is also in her 23rd year of producing Teen Connection a 60-minute live call-in program that is broadcast statewide on Wisconsin Public Television and Channel l0, Milwaukee and parts of Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota. Littig is serving her second gubernatorial appointment to the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. She co-produced Do Not Go Gently during her semi-retirement.
In 1992, she and Godoy co-produced a program about the dark side of aging called I Grow Old, about elder abuse. The experience of producing this program led the team, in part, to search for hope in the culture of aging.




