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There’s so much of this fast-growing vine in the Southeastern U.S., you might think it was a native plant. Actually, it took a lot of hard work to help kudzu spread so widely and now that it covers over seven million acres, there are a lot of people working hard to get rid of it! But kudzu is used in ways which might surprise you.SHOW ME NOW

I was searching for a documentary topic when I called a friend to pick his brain. “You could do a documentary on kudzu,” he said and I was drawn into a field of tangled vines that hold me to this day. That conversation was in 1994 and in it I learned that my friend’s mother made baskets by weaving kudzu vines.SHOW ME NOW

Emmy-winning filmmaker Max Shores is a forty-year veteran of TV and documentary film production. His work has been featured on Alabama Public Television, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, and PBS stations nationwide. Shores is a Winfield, Alabama native and a graduate of the University of Alabama. He is a product of the University’s College of Communication and Information Sciences and has been training students in media production both inSHOW ME NOW

Education 1984 Master of Arts in Communications, The University of Alabama 1977 Bachelor of Science in Broadcast and Film Communications, The University of Alabama Academic Instruction Experience JCM 201 – 2018 to present – Adjunct Instructor for an Intro to Media Production class. TCF 145 – 2012 to 2014 – Adjunct Instructor for an Intro to Media Production class. BFC 150 – 1984 – AdjunctSHOW ME NOW