Jay Fedigan

About this user

Jay is currently in pre-production for "Wine Life" a fun and quirky weekly show about wine.

Recent projects include:
-"Connections Create Healthy Communities" a national, grassroots, community health project designed to address racial health disparities through education, communication, and action.
- "Dancing Spoon" a food and wine web video show featuring food writer Michael Wheeler.
- "The Legacy Project" documenting the lives of ALS patients for Beth Israel Hospital.
- "A Safe Place" looking back on ten years of the Violence Prevention and Recovery Center at Beth Israel Hospital.
- "Words to Action" a retrospective on the life of Horace Seldon, for Community Change.
- "Your One-Line Identity - On the Line" - hosted by Daz Greenwood for the MIT Media Lab.
- "Coming Up for Air", a Promotional video for Stan Strickland's one man play, for Alliger Arts.
- Peter Senge keynote video for JAC University in Bejing, for JAC University.
- "The Angry Heart Interview Series: Cornel West", The prominent African-American scholar and best selling author Cornel West speaks about racism and health, for Jay Fedigan Video.

Jay Fedigan received a BFA in film and photography from Emerson College and went on to found Powerglide Media. As a principal partner, Jay was a senior member of the production team on numerous productions and events for corporate and higher education clients such as Bose, Gillette, Teradyne, Harvey Industries, Harvard University and Northeastern University.

In 1998 Jay left Powerglide to dedicate more time to producing, directing and editing his own video projects. Later that year he conceived and began production of "The Angry Heart", a documentary about the impact of racism on heart disease among African Americans, (www.theangryheart.com ). The Angry Heart has won several awards including Best Documentary, 2001 New Hampshire Film Expo; Finalist, 2002 The Roxbury Film Festival; Finalist, 2002 Freddie Awards; Special Jury Selection Award, The 2003 Spaghetti Junction Urban Film Festival. The Angry Heart has been broadcast on independent cable and community channels and continues to be shown at health and educational events for community centers, hospitals, universities and churches all over the country. Jay speaks regularly about "The Angry Heart", and health disparities at hospitals, universities, churches and many different social forums and has been interviewed on radio and television.

Besides directing, Jay is an accomplished Avid editor and cameraman. He is a seasoned traveler and has directed crews in Italy, France and all over the USA including Hawaii and the islands. He is a published photographer and his have accompanied articles in: O The Oprah Magazine; The Boston Globe; The Underground Wine Journal; Hemispheres Magazine; In Vino Veritas.com, the independent wine column by Jonathon Alsop; and EasyFood Magazine.