About us
Coquina Productions is a video production company led by Arlen Slobodow, a seasoned media producer of public affairs media for non profit organizations, government, labor, and community organizations.
Arlen Slobodow has produced national PBS documentaries, and media programs for national and community based non profit organizations.
Coquina Productions is based out of Ormond Beach, FL and Washington, DC.
In Tampa, Florida he founded Public Media Productions which produced videos on affordable housing, and senior housing among other issues.
Arlen Slobodow also wrote, directed and produced Tampa Bay: Living Legacy an examination of the Tampa area's natural environment and the legacy of progress that had been made to vastly improve the bay. Produced for the Tampa Bay Estuary Program, the program was broadcast often on public TV and cable and was widely used among educators and in the community.
Freelance Writer and Producer for NTEU
Arlen has been writing and directing conference, training, and convention videos for the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) for over twenty years. NTEU represents 160,000 federal employees in 35 departments and agencies.
In recent years as federal employees do the important work of the nation, they have been attacked, denigrated and threatened by far-right forces. NTEU media unite members by exploring legislative and workplace issues, and by demonstrating NTEU’s collective strength and proud history of success in defending and achieving rights and benefits as federal employees serve their fellow Americans.
AIDS, District of Columbia
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation
In 1989, The District of Columbia mass media education campaign featured this TV Public Service Announcement which was considered controversial at the time. link: https://youtu.be/pROkRfbLwBE?si=YBJ0Us1GSbYWEItm
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation
Even as Evel Knievel struggled with his breathing, he agreed to appear on camera to support the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
New Mexico Wild
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation
Your Water Your Life
In New Mexico, filmed forays into the Gila Wilderness and the Sabinoso Wilderness illustrated the immense value and importance of wild lands.
Your Water Your Life
Our Vanishing Forests
Your Water Your Life
Your Water Your Life, a PBS documentary narrated and hosted by Susan Sarandon, explored various threats to our drinking water and documented local citizen groups who organized to identify these threats and to take action to protect their water.
Our Vanishing Forests
Our Vanishing Forests
Our Vanishing Forests
Our Vanishing Forests, a PBS documentary narrated by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, N. Scott Momaday explored the history of exploitation of American forests, the US Forest Service and it’s changing role, and the citizen movement that has emerged to protect our forests.
Living Double Lives
Our Vanishing Forests
Our Vanishing Forests
Living Double Lives examines the psychological impact of living in the nuclear age featuring the pioneer in the field of psychohistory, Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, and hosted and narrated by Colleen Dewhurst. Broadcast by PBS stations nationwide, the program focused on the city of Charlottesville, VA then officially considered a host city for Washington, DC in the event of a nuclear war.