Documentary · Nonfiction · New Jersey

Windows Down Productions

Stories about what disappears —and who finds a way out.

The Slate

The Slate

In Development
In Development Feature Documentary 6-Part Series

Hands of Time

He flew fifty-two missions. He wasn't allowed to keep the jacket. They painted a bomb on it for every mission — fifty-two, in rows down his chest — and then it went back to the Army. One photograph survives.

His service record doesn't. The 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center took up to 18 million files — 80% of every Army record from 1912 to 1960 — in a single night. Hands of Time is about that fire, and everyone still holding the only proof they have.

Request the pitch deck →
Early Development Animated Documentary-Hybrid Working Title

Truly Outrageous

In 1985, a cartoon aired about a woman who inherits her father's record company — and a machine he built in secret — and uses it to project a version of herself the world would actually listen to.

It ran three seasons, sold a lot of dolls — and guessed the future. Forty years later the machine is real: it lives in your pocket, it performs in cloned voices, and an entire industry now sells conversations with the dead.

Truly Outrageous braids the cartoon's true story and the rise of grief tech with an original animated tale that flips the myth: this time, the machine is her father.

Request the pitch deck →

Why We Make These Films

Records burn. Voices fade. People who were somebody's whole world become a name on a form — and then the form is gone too.

Windows Down makes films about what disappears, and about the people who refuse to let it stay lost: the archivists, the daughters, the ones who find a way out. Scrupulously researched. Personally felt. Built by a producer who learned in twenty years of newsrooms that the story is never the fire — it's who walks out, and how.

“If I'm in the bunker,
I want Kovach with me — she'll find a way out.”
Colleague · WPIX-TV Newsroom

Founder

Caroline Kovach

Founder · Producer & Archivist · Emmy® Award Winner

Caroline came up in the WPIX-TV newsroom — sports first, where her feature “One of a Kind Drive” won the Emmy®, then the archives, then “Help Me Howard” consumer investigations. One win from four nominations across sports and investigative news.

Samsung came next, with newsroom deadlines at global scale: thousands of product assets at a 98.7% on-time record, and training content built to bridge language barriers across seventeen countries. She took what she learned there to Haier and did it on a fraction of the budget — producing and hosting a how-to series that still runs on the company's official channel. Then Audible, launching titles. Then Apple, bringing her deep sports knowledge to the AI — training it on the nuances of baseball and soccer, so searches answered the way fans actually ask. She knows how to get a story shot, cut, cleared, and delivered — because she has done every one of those jobs herself.

“I came up in a newsroom, which means I know how to work a deadline, a phone, and a stack of documents nobody else wants to read. I'm good in the bunker. I'm better at finding the person who got out of one.”

  • WPIX-TV
  • Samsung
  • Haier
  • Audible
  • Apple
  • CVS Health

Selected Work — On Camera & Behind It

The Haier how-to series — ten of these installation and maintenance videos Caroline produced and demoed on camera herself, on a limited budget, doing both jobs at once. This one — three minutes on connecting a portable washer to a sink — has been quietly rescuing renters for a decade. Read the comments: they're thank-you notes.

Watch the full series on YouTube →

Recognition

New York NATAS · May 2008

Emmy® Award

“One of a Kind Drive,” WPIX-TV — producer, with Lolita Lopez (reporter), Richard Marino (editor), and William Muller (photographer). One win from four nominations.

NYS AP Broadcasters

First Place × 2

Including Best Sports Coverage for a two-part investigation into steroid testing in New Jersey high schools, with Lolita Lopez. Press: Gothamist →

Samsung Electronics America

#1 Global Service

Best Practice Award, Digital Service Marketing Team.

Samsung Electronics America

Best Video by a Subsidiary

“Soft Skills for Technicians” — translated into five languages for worldwide use.

Samsung Electronics America

Best Training Practice

“TV Sales Promoter Training” video series.

Samsung & Haier

Brand Ambassador

Selected to represent both companies in community work — Special Olympics, Boys & Girls Club, Community City Garden.

Also from Windows Down

Kovach's Korner

Resale & Collectibles

My father collected the Yankees his whole life — Mantle, Berra, Ruth, and a lot of things nobody would think to keep. When he died in 2025, I learned that an estate is an archive too, and somebody has to know what mattered.

Kovach's Korner places those pieces with people who'll care about them. Same instinct as the films: find the record, keep the provenance, don't let it get lost twice.

Careers

Coming Soon

As projects move into production, Windows Down will be looking for collaborators — editors, associate producers, researchers, and archival specialists who care about getting it right. Postings will appear here. If that's you and you can't wait, introduce yourself.

Let's find
a way out.

Development, co-production, and partnership inquiries welcome. Pitch decks for both slate projects are available on request.

caroline@windowsdownproductions.com

Windows Down Productions LLC
New Jersey · New York
LinkedIn