Crank: Darkness on the Edge of Town

From meth’s introduction as a deadly drug phenomenon, to the hard lessons families learn about addiction, to a grass roots community campaign to control a meth crisis, CRANK: Darkness on the Edge of Town offers an anatomy of one town’s waking nightmare to mirror America’s struggle with methamphetamine.

AWARDS

To date, the following accolades have been awarded to “CRANK: Darkness on the Edge of Town”

EMMY – Mid-South Regional Topical Documentary
EMMY – Writer, Mid-South Regional Non-News Program
NETA Award – National Educational Television Association – Informational Program Production
Drug Strategies’Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award (shared with Minnesota Public Radio)
PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (shared with Koppel on Discovery and PBS’ FRONTLINE)
Edward R. Murrow Award – Regional News Documentary
CINE Golden Eagle Award
TELLY Silver – Documentary
Int’l Academy of the Visual Arts - COMMUNICATORS’ Award of Distinction
AURORA Gold – Documentary

Importantly, amongst a variety of public television programs such as NOVA, FRONTLINE, Masterpiece and American Experience, CRANK: Darkness on the Edge of Town was the single program included in the Health and Medicine category in the 2008 promotional “Expanding Your World” DVD sent to national educational distributors from PBS/ WGBH Home Video.