
About Channel Catalina

The Channel Catalina story
Channel Catalina was founded in 2008 on Catalina Island by Jim Watson as a small video production company initially producing local commercials and mini-documentaries.
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In 2010, the company began producing a two-part documentary called Wings Across the Channel: Catalina Island's Aviation History, which won a Superior Filmmaking award at the 2011 Las Vegas International Film Festival and was showcased in a fundraising telethon for KCET-TV, the largest independent public television station in the nation.
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In recent years, the company has begun to focus nearly exclusively on the written word with the publishing of Mysterious Island Catalina, the vanguard of a series of books that will explore the folklore and legends of islands around the world.