Seren Media offers workshops, marketing, consulting, and video editing for authors and aspiring filmmakers. We also produce our own programming, exploring important global and domestic issues. When not grounded in current affairs, we delve into esoteric ideas, as exemplified by Quantum Factor, and we have a little fun with educational projects such as Animalvision. 
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Alison Hill is the Director of Seren Media, which she created in October 2005.
An award-winning producer, writer, journalist, and interviewer, she now longs
to add 'published horror novelist,' to her extensive bio. Alison's 15 years of professional industry experience, includes analyzing U.S. news stories for the BBC, earning an Emmy Award nomination while at PBS, filming undercover with an alleged cult, and working on several BAFTA and BT Award winning programs. Alison hosted the Emmy-nominated PBS series, Dropframe, for several years, and was host, creator and executive producer of the PBS show, Quantum Factor. Alison coordinated the location shoots of 4 commercials, as part of a big budget advertising campaign for the Eastern Band of Cherokee, in 2007. As a correspondent for www.zootoo.com, she produced a segment featuring Hollywood actress, Andie MacDowell. Alison shot, wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, Mountin' Hopes. And as a studio producer, has booked several best-selling authors (see list below) as talk show guests. In 2007 Alison worked with well-renowned Western author, Bill Brooks (The Stone Garden, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.) on workshop events. Bill was the first to suggest that she start writing horror novels!

Alison has created a series of workshops, drawing on this extensive experience to help authors gain media exposure. She also gives presentations to writing groups on media readiness.

Please scroll down to view photographs of Alison Hill hosting Dropframe, Haunted World, Quantum Factor, and Colorado Inside Out Live!

Some of the famous people Alison has filmed: President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, the Dalai Lama, Michael Moore, Jason Alexander, and Hollywood actress Andie MacDowell.

BBC Work
For the past decade Alison has been a contributing journalist for BBC Radio Wales news programs, analyzing U.S. political and social issues. She's covered most presidential and mid-term elections since moving to America in 1999, and has discussed breaking news stories and an array of topical issues, ranging from U.S. foreign policy, to health care reform, gun rights and the Gulf oil spill. She has also discussed  aspects of Barack Obama's presidency in numerous interviews.

While working for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2009, Alison appeared with the First Minister of Wales, Rhodri Morgan, on a BBC panel discussion show, shot at the Newseum, Washington D.C. 

More Career Highlights:
Alison has conducted on-screen interviews with - actor Jason Alexander, filmmaker Michael Moore, Director William Arntz (What the Bleep do We Know!?), Siham Hamdan (Baghdad City Council Member), Dr. Joe Dispenza (author, Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind)

Off-screen interviews - Saimir Krashniki (Kosovar refugee), several British MP's, domestic abuse family survivors, public officials, social and political activists, community leaders, and many more.

Authors Alison Hill has booked for talk shows:

#1 New York Times best-selling author, Jill Connor Browne, (Sweet Potato Queen), best-selling author, Professor Marc Bekoff (Minding Animals, The Smile of a Dolphin), Nando Parrado, (Miracle in the Andes), Michael R. Gordon, chief military correspondent for the New York Times (Cobra II)

Some of the hard-hitting issues Alison has tackled for television productions: human trafficking, the Rwandan genocide, immigration, military low-flying, GM foods, cults, academic freedom, the Middle east peace process, Homeland Security, animal cruelty, the Iraq War, prison recidivism, and much, much more.

Teaching
After presenting several lectures on journalism and media to students at the Metropolitan College of Denver, Alison developed a taste for teaching. Since then she's taught TV production courses at the Ohio School for Broadcasting in Denver, created a pre-production workshop for budding filmmakers, taught schoolchildren on media issues, and her latest development is a series of workshops preparing authors for media engagements.

Here's Alison's full story:

Alison Hill grew up in a small village in rural Wales, and is a fluent Welsh speaker. She has always been fascinated with America, and one of her favorite authors growing up was Mark Twain.  She read American Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury in southern England, graduating with a BA Honors Degree. During her exchange year at USC Columbia, she met and fell in love with Andrew Hill while searching for a library book. They've been married for 18 years and now live in Cary, North Carolina, with two feral tabby cats.

Alison began her journalism career as a newspaper reporter running a regional office in a Welsh coastal town, famous for its sailing conditions. She quickly moved into television, becoming an investigative journalist with the ITV 1 prime time current affairs series -Y Byd ar Bedwar (The World on Four, broadcast on S4C, Channel 4 Wales.) Here she undertook many exciting ventures, including an undercover assignment where she infiltrated an 'alleged' religious cult, becoming a member and secretly filming meetings, events and conversations. (click here for more details!) Alison also produced news reviews and 10-minute segments for a weekly news magazine, and performed voice-overs and stand-ups for items, as well as voicing a Crimestoppers slot.

In the U.S. Alison worked for AT&T Digital Media Centers in Colorado, in media scheduling and quality control for the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and BBC America.
For several years she was the senior public affairs producer at a PBS affiliate in Denver, producing three weekly shows, two of them live, call-in discussion shows. She also hosted and voiced several programs, segments and underwriting spots.
For the past decade Alison has been a regular contributing journalist on BBC Radio Wales news programs. She also trained as a private investigator (surveillance) in Phoenix and Denver.
Her on-screen credits include host of the Emmy-nominated series Dropframe, the PBS show Quantum Factor, a special episode of Colorado Inside Out Live, Colorado Decides 2004, and Haunted World.

In addition, Alison writes articles and op/ed pieces, and is working on her second horror novel.

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