In January 1996 a partnership was formed between two
not-for-profit, tax-exempt organizations: the One World
Foundation, Inc. in Jacksonville, Florida and Unity
Theatre*Television*Film Co., Inc. in New York City. The goal
of this partnership was, in broad terms, to use the emerging
technologies of the Internet and advances in tele and
video communications to provide highly professional
instruction in certain fields that heretofore have remained
centralized, for the most part, in Los Angeles and New York.
PROJECT DISCOVERY is the first product of this joint initiative.
John A. McQuiggan has had extensive talks in
Jacksonville and Boston with MediaOne (formerly
Continental Cablevision) and in New York with Lucent
Technologies/Bell Labs and they agreed to be major
sponsors of PROJECT DISCOVERY in 1997 along with BRAVO
and The Independent Film Channel and HBO. All of the
parties believe that to showcase a half hour of television
created and produced by high school students who
learned the foundations of their craft through the very best
of distance learning will be a progressive and illuminating
experience for everyone involved.
Phase I 