Larry Hott and Diane Garey of Florentine Films/Hott Productions have produced 23 films for PBS broadcast and numerous short films for educational and online distribution. In their careers they have raised millions of dollars for research, development, production, and distribution. The two speak about how they garnered production funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, private foundations, state humanities councils, and corporations. They also show clips from their award-winning films and talk about how each one was funded and produced.

A collection of lectures featuring particularly prominent speakers, many of whom are guests to the university.