Productions in 1995. He produced a five-part television series covering Japanese cooking for WDIV-TV (Detroit) in late 1990s and the 1990s Detroit-produced travel and food series Keith Famie's Adventures in Cooking, later called Famie's Adventures in Cooking, seen by about 400,000 viewers of Detroit as of 1998. He produced a documentary special From Hanoi to China Beach: A Taste of the Exotic, shown in Fox Theatre (Detroit) for a charity event International Evening: Vietnam on August 28, 1999, and then aired two days later on WDIV-TV. Famie's Visionist and another company Mexicantown Community Development Corporation produced another film A Journey to Mexico, also called A Journey Home, which explores immigration from Jesús María and St. Ignacio of central Mexico to Detroit, in January 2000. The film was conceptualized by Mexicantown's then-president Maria Elena Rodriguez, and its crew consisted of eleven people. The film premiered in the Detroit Opera House on May 11, 2000. It then aired on WDIV-TV on June 24, 2000. Before Survivor, Famie appeared on regularly a WDIV-TV news program's cooking segment and on another television program Famie's Wild Aussie Adventures. Survivor: The Australian Outback Famie was one of forty-eight applicants shortlisted for Survivor: Borneo. However, he was filming A Journey Home at the time, affecting his chances to be cast. He eventually appeared on Survivor: The Australian Outback (2001) as part of the Ogakor tribe. He often clashed with bartender/actress Jerri Manthey over position to support the tribe, much to annoyance of the remaining Ogakor tribe. The tribe criticized his rice cooking as poorly executed but then praised his fish cooking as well executed. However, his overall social gameplay was perceived as subpar. After two Ogakor members were voted off, in Ogakor's third Tribal Council, votes against Famie and Mitchell Olson, who admitted at the Council being physically weaker than Famie, were tied 3–3. In the re-vote, Famie and Mitchell were ineligible to vote. Votes against them were tied again 2–2. To break the second tie, vote casts in prior Councils were considered. Famie was not voted before, but a vote against Olson was cast in one prior Council, causing Olson to be eliminated. Thus, Manthey's alliance that voted against Famie weakened. When the Ogakor and Kucha tribes merged into the Barramundi tribe, ten overall contestants remained—five each of their own tribe. Furthermore, the former Ogakor tribe was still divided between two alliances: one consisted of Manthey