Chip Duncan is a filmmaker, author, photographer and President of The Duncan Group, Inc., a documentary and feature film production company formed in 1984. Duncan is also a partner with publisher Bob Kendall in Thunder House LLC, a development company dedicated to financing and production of Broadway and off-Broadway theater projects and feature length film and documentary projects.

Duncan has received more than 100 national and international awards for his work as a writer, producer, director, and photographer. His most recent production, LANDSLIDE - A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover, premiered nationwide on PBS on October 26th, 2009. Prayer In America, a 2-part documentary on the impact of prayer and faith practices on American society, aired nationwide in 2008. The project included a 20-city community outreach campaign and multi-part classroom series on historical and constitutional issues related to prayer (available 2009). Duncan was also a consulting producer for the 2007 HBO Sports production of The Rivalry featuring the longstanding competition between the Ohio State and Michigan football programs.

Duncan's production of The Cost of Freedom - Civil Liberties, Security and the USA PATRIOT Act aired nationwide on public television in September, 2004. His production of Beyond The Gridiron - The Life & Times of Woody Hayes also premiered nationwide on public television in 2004. Duncan also worked as the Consulting Producer and Director of Photography for the PBS biography on Henry Wallace (produced in association with Iowa Public Television). The film, Henry A. Wallace, premiered nationwide on PBS during April, 2005.

In September, 2003 PBS launched the nationwide premiere of In A Just World - Abortion, Contraception & World Religion. The Magic Never Ends - The Life & Work of C.S. Lewis began broadcast nationwide on PBS in September, 2002. Duncan's production of Rafting Alaska's Wildest Rivers premiered on PBS in July 2001. Through One City's Eyes, an in-depth campaign on race relations in America's heartland, included a nationwide public television broadcast in February 2001. As part of the Through One City's Eyes campaign, Duncan also initiated a 7-part public radio series, executive produced a 2-part classroom series for middle school students, and co-designed a traveling photo museum.

Wisconsin: An American Portrait premiered nationwide on PBS during March, 2000. Duncan's production of Worth Fighting For - People Protecting the Great Lakes, a one-hour public television special on endangered habitat (narrated by James Taylor) premiered nationwide on public television in 1998. In 1996, Duncan completed production of Mystic Lands, a 13-part documentary series on spiritual places of the world (narrated by Edward James Olmos). A co-production with Discovery Networks, Mystic Lands is presently being broadcast in more than 100 countries around the world. Duncan was the series creator, executive producer, and director as well as the writer and photographer of numerous episodes. The Mystic Lands Collector's Edition was released in October, 2005 and is distributed by Chicago-based Questar, Inc.

As a producer/director, Duncan supervised the production of all projects produced through the Duncan-Landaas Limited Partnership including the EMMY award-winning children's series Astrodudes™ as well as eleven travel documentaries broadcast on The Discovery Channel between 1991-1994. His 1986-87 production of the Is Anyone Listening? series for teenagers is among the best-selling classroom series of all time.

In 1992, Duncan wrote, produced, directed, and photographed Tatshenshini: A Journey to the Ice Age for public television. Duncan's 1993 production of Alaska's Bald Eagle: New Threats To Survival (narrated by Richard Kiley) was the winner of the "Best New Wildlife Filmmaker" award at the 1993 Jackson Hole Wildlife Festival. During his production of the 1994 public television special Positive Thinking: The Norman Vincent Peale Story, Duncan and co-producer David Crouse interviewed five American presidents -- Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, George Bush & Ronald Reagan.

In 1996, Duncan produced the feature film Eden, a Sundance Film Festival finalist. That same year, Duncan executive produced the movie Cadillac Ranch. Cadillac Ranch was released theatrically in 1997 and was later broadcast on HBO. Eden was released theatrically in March, 1998 and continues to be distributed worldwide by Lakeshore Entertainment. Eden was licensed by both HBO and the Lifetime Network.

In 1998, Duncan produced the feature film Row Your Boat (starring Jon Bon Jovi). He also co-executive produced The Break Up (starring Bridget Fonda & Kiefer Sutherland) that premiered on Showtime in 1999 and aired nationwide on UPN in 2003.

Duncan is the co-author of two stories sold to the CBS network remake of The Twilight Zone in 1985. His second book, ENOUGH TO GO AROUND - Searching for Hope in Afghanistan, Pakistan & Darfur was released in October, 2009 by New York-based Select Books. His first non-fiction book, The Magic Never Ends - The Life & Work of C.S. Lewis was published by Thomas Nelson Publishing in November, 2001 and re-released by Augsburg Press in 2005 (penned under the name John Ryan Duncan). Duncan's first play, The Dying Art, premiered at the Bloomington Playwright's Workshop at the University of Indiana during July, 2000.

Duncan's current public television production is called A QUEST FOR MEANING - Myth, Imagination & Faith in the Literature of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. The film includes interviews with notable scholars, theologians and mythologists from around the world and looks at the literature and spiritual beliefs of Tolkien and Lewis. Duncan and his colleagues are also in production on an untitled production on climate change in western Canada and Alaska as well as a public television film on the history of American Indian education.

Duncan serves as a board member for Relief International (RI.org). In that capacity and using his skills as a writer/photographer, Duncan has made visits to Pakistan (2006), North Darfur, Sudan (2008) and Haiti (2010). Duncan also visited war-torn Afghanistan in 2005 in a similar capacity for the not-for-profit group Save The Children.

During his free time, Duncan guides regular trekking trips on Peru's Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. He is an avid skier and spends considerable time in the Alaskan wilderness. In January, 2006 Duncan climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with a group of friends from the United Arab Emirates.

Chip Duncan can be contacted via e-mail through The Duncan Group web site at Chip@DuncanEntertainment.com
or by calling (USA) 414-223-1060