PRIORITY PRODUCTIONS, INC.
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Award-winning Independent Documentary Producer-Writer-Director Specializing in the Arts, Education, Public Policy and Politics. Created/produced significant PBS & CBS network programming:

• The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, Founding Producer, 200+ programs
• Listening to America with Bill Moyers, Executive Producer, 27 hours
• The Dick Cavett Show, Executive Producer
• Inside Story with Hodding Carter, Senior Producer
• Bill Moyers' Journal, Producer
• Assignment America, Producer for Studs Terkel
• CBS News Sunday Morning & Sixty Minutes, Producer, 100+ segments

PROFESSIONAL CREDITS (Chronologically) - (By Program Type - text only)

2004

ETHICS IN SPORTS -- A CBS RELIGION SPECIAL Producer-writer, correspondent and narrator, Half-hour documentary broadcast by CBS stations nationwide beginning September 26th and aired in New York on October 10th.   To purchase a videotape, please call toll free 1-800-494-6007.

UNRAVELING OF A CANDIDATE -- Producer-writer, Hour on presidential candidates' defining moments, New York Times Television for the Discovery Channel Spotlight series, March 28, 2004.  Repeated on DiscoveryTimes digital television April 2004 and November 2004.

ALFRED I. DUPONT -- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN TELEVISION AND RADIO JOURNALISM, Producer-Writer, Ceremony. Excerpted

for broadcast on PBS, January 2004.

2003

SID AT 90 -- Producer-Director, Half-hour profile of actor/comedian Sid Raymond.  World Premiere at 12th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, January  14, 2003.  Broadcast on WLIW 21 New York Public Television, January 18, 21 & 27, 2003.

2002
NEW YORK IN SONG - Producer-Director, 90-minute special, CUNY-TV, New York. March 8, 9, 10, 11 & 15, 2002. Repeat Telecast June 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14, 2002. VHS available for $39.95 donation to "CSFA - Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund" to benefit children of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

NOW with BILL MOYERS - Producer, "Academic Freedom"; Interview Producer, Weekly Series. January 18 - March 1, 2002.

JOURNALISTS IN A TIME OF CRISIS: WATCHDOGS OR LAPDOGS? - The Alfred I. Dupont - Columbia University Forum 2002, January 16, 2002. Producer, 2 1/2 hours. PBS Adult Learning Service feed May 17, 2002.

EXTREME PLASTIC SURGERY - Producer-Writer. Hour for MSNBC. March 28, 2001; Rebroadcast April 22, 2001.

MORE GREAT NEWS - Producer. Two-hours. Extended excerpts, winners of 2001 duPont-Columbia Awards for Excellence in Radio & Television Journalism. PBS Feed, January 19, 2001.

2000
CAROLINE KENNEDY: KEEPER OF THE LEGACY - Producer-Writer. Hour for Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer, MSNBC, July 16, 2000.

MONEY, HUMOR & SPIN IN ELECTION 2000 - The Alfred I. Dupont - Columbia University Forum. Producer-director, 2-hours, PBS Adult Learning Service. Feed May 4, 2000.

1999
MEDIA MATTERS: INVESTIGATING CHIQUITA - Producer-Writer. PBS. May 4, 1999.

DIGITAL FILMMAKING I & II - Producer, Host/Interviewer: 1½ hours for New York Film/ Video Council, Manhattan Neighborhood Network.
Fall 1999.

NEW TELEVISION WORKSHOP, WGBH - Interviewer for Archival Project.

1998

1997
JOURNALISTS, LAWYERS & PUBLIC OFFICIALS - OVERCOMING PUBLIC MISTRUST, The duPont-Columbia Forum, in collaboration with American Bar Association. Producer, 4 hours. PBS Adult Learning Service. Feed Spring 1997.

GEORGE BUSH - THE MAKING OF A LEADER, Consulting Producer. For the George Bush Presidential Library. The History Channel. Fall 1997.

Sculptor Deborah Butterfield at the Walla Walla Foundry

1996
AMERICA'S ELECTION, Producer-Writer, Hour Special, NHK, Japan. January 1, 1996.

THE FUTURE OF INVESTING, Producer-Writer, 90-minute program. Wall Street Journal Television, Asia, Europe & U.S. Sold as Home Video. May 28, 1996

CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING with CHARLES OSGOOD, Deborah Butterfield: Horses - profile of sculptor's public art. Producer-Writer. To air Fall 1996.

"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman

1995
"TOPLESS CELLIST" CHARLOTTE MOORMAN, Producer-Director, Half-hour commissioned by v ideo artist Nam June Paik for Spring 1995 exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York. Broadcast on Thirteen/WNET, New York. May 15, 1995.

CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING with CHARLES OSGOOD: The V-Chip; The Kronos Quartet; The Children of Brother Brian at De LaSalle Academy; Photographer Joel Meyerowitz - preserving artist Edward Hopper's Cape Cod landscape; Sculptor Martin Puryear's Pylons for Battery Park City. Producer-Writer. January to November 1995.

CROWN OF THE ANDES, Writer-Producer-Director. Promotional video, Christie's auction of historic emerald and gold crown. November 1995.

1994
CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING with CHARLES OSGOOD: Soccer in America on the Eve of the World Cup; The Rockefeller Estate, Kykuit; Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Large Scale Sculpture; One Percent for Public Art; The Yale Band Recreates the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band; The Jim Henson Foundations's International Puppet Festival; Elizabeth Bishop, American Poet Rediscovered. Producer-Writer. April to November 1994.

1993
CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING with CHARLES KURALT: Producer-Writer - rebroadcast of Dizzy (Dizzy Gillespie - In Memoriam) 1/10/93.

CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING with CHARLES KURALT: Producer-Writer: Eight newsmagazine stories including The 30th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington, Fairfield Porter, MIRO at MoMA, and humor pieces with Bill Geist - Smelt Fishing in Chicago, Indoor Rock Climbing. April 1993 to January 1994.

1992

Photo/Peter Cunningham

Bill Moyers (left) and Howard Weinberg on the set of Listening to America at thirteen/WNET studio, 1992.

LISTENING TO AMERICA with BILL MOYERS, Executive Producer-Writer, PBS election year series of 27 one-hour, weekly broadcasts. April 7 to October 27, 1992.

ELECTION DEBRIEFING, Producer-Director, Educational video for Dean Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

1991

Photo/Joe Pineiro, Columbia U.

SPECIAL REPORT: AFTER THE WAR - one-hour documentary essay on the aftermath of the Gulf War. Senior Producer and Producer-Writer. June 18, 1991.

At right: Bill Moyers (left) and Howard Weinberg, with duPont Award baton, 1993.

SPORTS FOR SALE, Producer-Writer-Diroctor. 3-hour public television event — 90-minute documentary followed by live discussion and call-in show. PBS. March 19, 1991.

CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING with CHARLES KURALT: Producer-Writer - More than 80 cultural, social, political stories; profiles of LEONTYNE PRICE, DAVID HOCKNEY, WILLEM deKOONING, DIZZY GILLESPIE, ROBERT JOFFREY, HAROLD PRINCE, YO YO MA, NAM JUNE PAIK, PETER CHERMAYEFF, RICARDO MUTI, CHARLES DUTOIT. May 1985 to April 1987; August 1981 to March 1984; January 1981 to March 1981.

CBS NEWS SIXTY MINUTES: Producer-Writer, Stories for Harry Reasoner: Airline pilots' mandatory retirement; Influence of PACs; Maternity leave; Amory & Hunter Lovins. March 1984 to May 1985.

INSIDE STORY with HODDING CARTER, Senior Producer-Writer; designed press critique series. PBS. March to June 1981.

BILL MOYERS' JOURNAL, Producer-Writer - WHAT'S A PARTY FOR?; WITHIN OUR POWER; THE ESSENTIAL REAGAN. PBS. July 1979 to November 1980.

THE DICK CAVETT SHOW, Executive Producer for WNET/13, 200 half-hour programs. PBS. September 1978 to June 1979. Sold PBS stations another year of series.

ASSIGNMENT AMERICA with STUDS TERKEL, Producer-Writer, 5 half-hour documentaries & 2 conversations. PBS. August 1974 to August 1975.

BILL MOYERS' JOURNAL, Producer-Writer, documentaries: ALBERT SHANKER = TEACHER POWER (1- hour); THE OREGON ATTITUDE; THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS OBSOLETE; KENT STATE: STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE (half-hours). PBS. 1973 to 1974.

WABC-TV EYEWITNESS NEWS, Producer-Writer, Profile; special reports; documentary, Melba Tolliver's New York. 1969 - 1973

THE BUILT-IN BLACKOUT, Field Producer-Reporter, hour documentary, Public Broadcast Laboratory, Washington, D.C. NET. 1968 -1969

WABC-TV, NEW YORK: Newswriter and Producer-Writer, Documentaries (The Garbage Glut) and Public Affairs Programs (The Superintendent of Schools Reports). Sept. 1966 - Sept. 1968

WISN-TV, MILWAUKEE (CBS affiliate): Newswriter; Producer, Special Reports; Producer-Writer, documentaries, including NO HOME FOR BILLY, half- hour on foster children. September 1965 - September 1966.

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