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Making video for organs
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Jill Tutt's portrait which appears on album covers
en Jill Dixon was
just in the seventh grade, her
singing at school functions
would bring thunderous
applause. Today Jill Dixon Tutt
draws.more accolades, especial-
ly from her husband Webb.
"He's my biggest fan."
To her three sons, she is still just "Momma."
David, Wdliam, and Robert know their mother
can do anything.
After all, she's ,'momma."
Momma has in the works a crossover single
video which tells a story and weaves God's
strength into the life of a family which has suf-
fered a tragedy but offers a gift of love that pro-
duces a lifesaving triumph for another family,
averting a tragedy for them.
Providence Baptist Church on Highway 69
north of Linden made an impact on Jill Tutt as
she was growing into womanhood. As a child,
her parents Arthur and Shirley Dixon took her
to Sunday School and church and training
union and prayer meeting andto happy events
and those sad events which bring a rural com-
munity together to pay final respects to a neigh-
bor or a friend. Sometimes, in Providence, a
nobody would need some respect, and the fami-
lies there would humbly pay it.
in experiencing life in a loving community,
Jill Tutt developed that love, too.
God also gave her another important
• attribute. He gave her the ability to sing songs
beautifully.
So she does that while being a momma to
young gentlemen and to a husband who
encourages her singing.
"You' re the Glory" envelopes listeners to her
single cd.
Jill does not stop with that single, there's a
mission in her life to help somebody -- not just
one somebody but a lot of people who need
what can be given by only most dedicated
donor.
In the auditorium at Demopolis High School,
she met with a couple of dozen people Sunday
afternoon, Feb. 24, to talk about he latest pro-
ject.
This latest project comes after her recording a
10-song cd in Los Angeles over the past year.
That cd will go on the market in April.
Sunday afternoon, she was not interested in
what may bring her fame and fortune. Her
focus was on her latest project, a video of a
tragedy that turns into a lifesaving triumph.
The complex chain of events which led to
this comes later. The event will be a video
filmed in one day at three locations in
Demopolis. One will be at the Trinity Episcopal
Church, another will be at the hospital, and the
final scene will be in the auditorium at
Demopolis High.
What Jill Tull Productions, Diamondstar
Films, and parent company Innovation Through
Imagination (ITI) are doing is the "moving
message of God's everyday presence in our
lives and God's ability to lead us ough the
troubled waters we will face each and every
day."
Denver Hudson will be the producer and
director. He is a 16 year old high school sopho-
more .who has done 18 pieces on organ dona-
tion and transplantation. He is a cinematograph-
er, production director, and chief operating offi-
cer for ITI and Diamondstar.
He told Jill this could be shot in Arkansas
where he was born, but she ed him to
Demopolis.
The shooting will be March 16. That
Saturday, the film crews and actors will be all
over Demopolis. The singing voice behind/the
scenes will be that of Jill Tutt.
The actors will Patrick George, doctor at the
church, plus three adults.
Kirk Brooker, doctor at the hospital, will be
fdmed with one teen and two adults.
At the family meeting in the auditorium, local
actors will be James Burden, Kelley McGey,
Garrett Baker, Mary Morgan Tucker, and possi-
ble extras: David Tutt, Tony Nicholson, Leslie
Gibbs, Debbie Nichols, Shannon Pittman, Kate
Hightower, Cyd Boland, and Frank Calloway.
Also, a chorus of some 30 people will be
seated on the three front rows.
In her most innocent way, Jill Tutt said this
will be an emotional video, but it will be dis-
tributed to every organization that involves
organ donors and transplantations.
Her talent is her biggest donation. Time away
from her three sons must also be a priceless
contribution,
"Momma, you can do it," she said one of her
sons quipped about the project. Mommas have
a way of doing things; sometimes there are
other spiritualities at work.
One of those other factors is the Canebrake
Players organization. Laurie Willingham and
Jody Tartt brought the actors in, even
Demopolis Mayor Mike Grayson.
The fact that Jill is a senior English teacher at
DHS gives her some access to the buildings at
the school and like Sunday afternoon, an oppor-
tunity to bring a lot of people together to get
their first briefing on the way this video will be
filmed.
She gave cast members scripts and schedules
as the group chatted all afternoon as the lady in
the center of the vortex of benevolences talked
about how the events will unfold on filming
day.
She thanked the volunteers who came out to
help encourage people to become organ donors.
Jody Tartt looks over script for her part in this video
Jill Tun, left, goes over with the volunteers for this musical video, what happens and will happen
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