Draft:Linda Haskins

Linda K. (Sam) Haskins is an American writer and director of industrial, sponsored, and documentary films, particularly associated with Centron Films.

Career
Haskins worked as a writer and director for Centron Films in Lawrence, Kansas. In an interview in 2001, she was quoted as saying that Centorn had an atmosphere that fostered creativity: "

In 1987 she founded her own production company, Take Ten, Inc.

Among her productions are documentaries exploring personal stories such as Through My Sights, a program featuring a World War II armored car gunner’s photos and experiences in Europe aired on PBS. Crawfish and Freys, a depiction of an intergenerational Cajun family in Louisiana; and Henry D. Remple: Finding Hope in Troubled Times, a 98-year-old Russian Mennonite immigrant’s message for children who have experienced trauma, as he did escaping the Russian Revolution at age seven. A video drama on women s reproductive rights, Words of Choice. Her current production is a baseball history program for public television.

Her work covers children’s television including producer/director credits for the acclaimed PBS Reading Rainbow series, and documentaries for Kansas Public Television such as Kansas Kids: Make It Matter, and Deadly Fumes. Her current production is Lucky 13: Kansas City Athletics Baseball 1955-1967 for release on public television.

Filmography

 * If You Knew How I Feel: Brad's Learning Disability (1982)
 * Halloween Safety (Second Edition) ( 1985)


 * Through My Sights: A Gunner's View of WWII
 * Facing Legal and Financial Considerations (1991)
 * Crawfish and Freys (1996)
 * Henry D. Remple: Finding Hope in Troubled Times (2007)
 * Lucky 13: Kansas City Athletics Baseball 1955-1967 (in production)