Charity Woodrum grew up in poverty in rural Oregon, where she dreamed of working for NASA one day. She married and at nine months pregnant, decided to go to UO to study physics. By the time she was a junior, she had completed a NASA internship and life felt perfect. Then, “the worst day.” Charity lost her husband and young son tragically. With help from friends and perfect strangers, she finds purpose and meaning again.
Director's Bio:
Sandy is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 20 years of experience working for NBC News, primarily working as a producer and senior producer. She has covered breaking news, investigative stories, legal stories, entertainment, and medical stories, and spent years producing long-form programs for the network. After leaving NBC, she formed TV Storyteller, LLC., an independent, nonfiction production company. Her work has aired on NBC, MSNBC, and OPB. Sandy built a reputation for earning the trust of the people whose stories she tells, and taking the storytelling to a deeper level.
"Full of wonder. We loved and were grateful for this film. And the Pine Mountain Observatory's in our back yard!" –BendFilm Team
Charity Woodrum grew up in poverty in rural Oregon, where she dreamed of working for NASA one day. She married and at nine months pregnant, decided to go to UO to study physics. By the time she was a junior, she had completed a NASA internship and life felt perfect. Then, “the worst day.” Charity lost her husband and young son tragically. With help from friends and perfect strangers, she finds purpose and meaning again.
Director's Bio:
Sandy is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 20 years of experience working for NBC News, primarily working as a producer and senior producer. She has covered breaking news, investigative stories, legal stories, entertainment, and medical stories, and spent years producing long-form programs for the network. After leaving NBC, she formed TV Storyteller, LLC., an independent, nonfiction production company. Her work has aired on NBC, MSNBC, and OPB. Sandy built a reputation for earning the trust of the people whose stories she tells, and taking the storytelling to a deeper level.
"Full of wonder. We loved and were grateful for this film. And the Pine Mountain Observatory's in our back yard!" –BendFilm Team