Alumnus Philip Henry wins Emmy at National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences regional awards
Lacey Klotz |
Lipscomb “lifer” Philip Henry (’03), now a cinematographer in North Carolina, recently won a mid-south Emmy Award for editing work on a documentary.
Henry, a freelance editor and owner of two cinematography businesses including Inkspot Crow Film and Two Pine State with his wife, MacKenzie, won the editor/program category of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences regional Emmy Awards held at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame on Feb. 27. He won for his work editing the documentary “Roy Williams’ Game Day Security Blanket.”
Produced by StoryDriven Media for UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the documentary features the life of Darrick Wood, who is a nurse manager on the emergency services transitions unit, and game-day security guard for Williams, the men’s basketball coach at the University of North Carolina.
Henry, a native of Nashville and son of Lipscomb kinesiology professor, Ruth Henry, attended Lipscomb Academy from first grade through his senior year and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Lipscomb University in 2003.
“Philip is a classic example of what Lipscomb's English department produces every year: creative, intelligent, multi-talented individuals who can excel in any number of career paths,” said Matt Hearn, professor of English at Lipscomb.
Hearn, who was Henry’s professor and academic advisor, said that Henry oozed with creative talent and suggested he try a new program called the Los Angeles Film Studies Center in fall of 2002.
“I suggested that he consider spending a semester at the LAFSC, since as an interdisciplinary program with an internship component, it would provide him with all sorts of opportunities to hone his gifts and apply them in a real-world setting,” said Hearn. “And that's exactly what happened. The LAFSC really accelerated Philips’ development as an artist, as a technician and as a creative professional.”
Henry was the first Lipscomb student to participate in the LAFSC program.
“At the time Lipscomb didn’t have a film program and after Dr. Hearn introduced this program to me, I was really excited to do it,” said Henry. “This experience truly laid the foundational work for my career in cinematography as I was able to learn the basics of writing, shooting, editing, directing and producing films.”
While on campus, Henry was a member of the Tau Phi social club and participated in Tau Phi’s Cowboy Show and Singarama. He also put together a series of videos for Lipscomb Athletics that highlighted the men’s basketball team.
In 2010, Henry and his wife MacKenzie launched a wedding videography company, Inkspot Crow Films, out of North Carolina.
“MacKenzie and I first had this idea to create our own wedding videography business after driving home from our honeymoon,” said Henry. “We are business partners and are both cinematographers, however, we have learned throughout the years that MacKenzie is really good with the business side of the company and I edit the videos. It is still our primary business today.”
The couple also developed Two Pine State, a company that produces commissioned documentary films for ethos-driven organizations and individuals. The company slogan is “our videos connect the viewer to the WHY of what you do.”
Henry is a 2015 graduate of the six-week Art of Editing course at the Edit Center in Brooklyn, New York.
He worked on several freelance projects, with his friend Nathan Clendenin, that have won Emmy Awards, but it wasn’t until this past February that he secured an Emmy of his own.
Today, Lipscomb has its own undergraduate and graduate cinematic arts programs housed in the College of Entertainment & the Arts. These programs offer students the opportunity to write, direct, film and edit various types of digital entertainment content.
The department offers graduate courses that train students to be independent, entrepreneurial filmmakers, to write, produce, direct and edit various genres of content for multiple media platforms, and to work in the financial and management side of digital entertainment.
To learn more about this program visit: cinematicarts.lipscomb.edu.