BIOGRAPHY
Tika Laudun is a senior staff member at Louisiana Public Broadcasting and
is responsible for the development of LPB's documentary and educational
productions.
She is the senior producer and director for LPB’s Louisiana: A History series and companion book Louisiana An Illustrated History. The Louisiana
History series has been awarded many national honors including the duPont
Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism; The National
Educational Telecommunications Association Award of Excellence for
Historical Documentary Series; a Sun Coast Regional Emmy Award; six
National Telly Awards; and International CINE and New York Film Festival
awards.
Laudun directed and co-produced Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening, a
documentary on the life and work of the nineteen century author Kate
Chopin which aired on PBS nationally. This documentary program has been
awarded the International CINE Award of Excellence for Documentary
Production; Second Place in documentary production from The National
Educational Telecommunications Association; and National Videographer’s
Award of Excellence.
She is also producer/director of LPB’s documentary Frame After Frame:
The Images of Herman Leonard, winner of The Chicago International
Television Competition’s Silver Plaque in Arts/Humanities Documentary
division, The International CINE Award of Excellence for Documentary
Production, The National Educational Telecommunications Association award
for Best Public Television Program of The Year, The New Orleans Film and
Video Society’s Lumiere Award; The National Education Association award
for Advancement of Learning Through Broadcasting, and a National Telly
Award. This program aired nationally on PBS.
Another nationally aired LPB program directed, co-produced and
photographed by Laudun, The Forest Where We Live, was awarded the
National Arbor Day Foundation’s Media Award of Excellence.
Past honors for her work have included the prestigious National Bar
Association’s Silver Gavel Award, the Sun Coast Emmy Award; several New
York Film Festival Awards and Louisiana’s Brown Pelican Award.
She was the previous editor of the Franklin Post and photojournalist for
the Daily Iberian newspapers. She
continues to display her black and white photography at galleries in
Louisiana.
