For over 40 years Huey has been making films on artists, education, the environment, and Maine. His films have been shown at film festivals, universities, film art theaters throughout the US and on PBS. In 2021, Huey was recognized by the Thoreau Society with The Walter Harding Distinguished Achievement Award in Scholarship. He has been awarded a Libra Professorship to teach at the University of Maine at Farmington for the Spring Semester, 2022.
His seventh feature-length documentary film released in 2017, Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul, was shown at the Maine International Film Festival, the Vermont International Film Festival, Morgan Library and Museum, University of Notre Dame, Thoreau 200 Conference at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Native American Programs, University of Maine, and Thoreau Society Annual Gatherings.
In Good Time: The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland, was selected as a “Must have jazz DVD of 2011” by DownBeat Magazine and won the Manny Berlingo Award, Best Feature Documentary, Garden State Film Festival. Wilderness and Spirit: A Mountain Called Katahdin, 2002, was shown at the Environmental Film Festival, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. Honest Vision, A Portrait of Todd Webb, 1996, was awarded a Silver Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival and was broadcast in Europe. His short film, Maine Heritage Orchard, 2016, was a winner at the Maine Short Film Festival and toured the state. All of Huey’s films have been shown on Maine Public Television and Vermont PBS.
Huey is a founder and past director of the Maine Student Film and Video Festival now in its 43rd year. He has been an artist-in-residence in animation and film and video production in over 100 schools in New England including: youth of the Penobscot Nation, students in the Multilingual Program, Portland Public Schools, and the Migrant Education Program in Turner, Maine. Since 2008 he has been an adjunct instructor in Communications and New Media Department, Southern Maine Community College, South Portland, ME.
Huey is a recipient of a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship. He is the recipient of the first “Huey” award from the Maine Film Commission. This award, named after Huey, is given to an individual who exhibits “exceptional contributions in film and education in Maine.” Three subsequent Huey awards have been given out. The “Huey Student Award” was established by an anonymous donor in June 2008 to annually recognize an outstanding high school senior in the Maine Student Film and Video Festival.