CURRENT:

2008

TV LAB: License to Create

DONATE NOW!  Make a tax-deductible contribution toward the completion of "Weinberg's TV LAB documentary" through The Independent Feature Project Fiscal Sponsorship Program. 

Your contribution will speed the finishing of Priority Productions' multi-year work-in-progress, instigated by the late video artist Nam June Paik, to celebrate the creative work of public television's TV LAB (1972-1984).  A short fundraising reel is available.  

NYSCA Grant

The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) awarded Weinberg a 2008 Individual Artists Grant of $25,000 toward completion of his TV LAB documentary.  The grant has spurred fundraising efforts now underway.

Teaching

Spring Semester 2007: Weinberg is an Adjunct Professor, teaching "The Journalistic Tradition: Documentary History and Strategy" in the Graduate Journalism Program of New York University's College of Arts and Sciences.

The Script-Doctor

The Script-Doctor is IN and makes House Calls as Weinberg takes on work for new clients: www.script-doctor.net

Sid at 90

Sid at 90 is distributed by The Cinema Guild (212) 685-6242; orders@cinemaguild.com

New York Film/Video Council

Weinberg is elected to a third term as President of the oldest non-profit organization serving the independent media community in New York as the NYFVC celebrated its 60th Anniversary.

CUNY-TV

Fall 2006: Weinberg serves as Senior Producer, Special Projects, CUNY-TV.

Teaching

Spring Semester 2006: Weinberg is an Adjunct Professor, teaching "The Journalistic Tradition: Documentary History and Strategy" in the Graduate Journalism Program of New York University's College of Arts and Sciences.

Teaching

Summer Term 2005: Weinberg is Visiting Lecturer at Dartmouth College's Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program.  He teaches a documentary filmmaking course, MALS 243.

Spring Semester 2005: Weinberg is an Adjunct Professor, teaching "The Journalistic Tradition: Contemporary Trends in Documentary" in the Graduate Journalism Program of New York University's College of Arts and Sciences.

Professional Organizations

July 2005:  Weinberg is elected to the Board of Governors of the New York Chapter of the National Television Academy.

Sid at 90 becomes part of the collections of New York Public Library's Donnell Media Center, New York University's Avery Fisher Center, Harvard University's Library, and Dartmouth College's Jones Media Center.

Weinberg writes, produces and directs the Alfred I.

duPont-Columbia University Awards ceremony in the Rotunda of Low Library on January 21, 2004.

Winter 2004 edition of TV Quarterly magazine publishes Weinberg's article, "The Television Documentary Today".

February - March 2004:  Weinberg produces Unraveling of a Candidate for New York Times Television for the Discovery Channel's Spotlight documentary series  telecast on 10 p.m. Sunday March 28, 2004.  The program is repeated several times during primary season and again during the November general election on DiscoveryTimes digital television channel. 

July 2, 2004: Weinberg returns to Dartmouth College, his alma mater, to speak and show Unraveling of a Candidate to faculty and students of the Master of Arts Liberal Studies program, Moore Hall, Filene Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

July - September 2004: Weinberg hosts, narrates, writes and produces a half-hour documentary Ethics in Sports -- A CBS Religion Special that is broadcast by CBS stations nationwide beginning September 26th and airs in New York on October 10th. 

To purchase a videotape, please call toll free 1-800-494-6007.

Professional Organizations

Weinberg is elected to another term as president of the New York Film/Video Council, 2004-2005, www. nyfvc.org 

Unraveling of a Candidate is screened at the New York Public Library's Donnell Media Center Wednesday, October 13, 2004 as part of a series of presidential election films, "So You Want to be President."

Sid at 90

2004 Screenings: 

The Contra Costa Jewish Film Festival in Walnut Creek, CA, March 16th.

The Denver Jewish Film Festival, Saturday evening March 13th and Sunday afternoon March 14th. 

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, March 4, 2004.

The Detroit Jewish Film Festival, Sunday April 25, 2004. 

WLIW 21 New York Public Television rebroadcast, Monday August 30, 2004.

Orinda Film Festival, in a program of short films entitled: "Young at Heart" on Thursday, October 14, 2004.

The Script-Doctor

December 2004: The Script-Doctor is IN and makes House Calls as Weinberg completes work on a History Channel Civil War documentary: www.script-doctor.net

Sid at 90 had its World Premiere at The 12th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival, a collaboration between The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, at the Walter Reade Theatre on Tuesday January 14, 2003.

WLIW 21New York public television broadcast Sid at 90 at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday January 18, 2003 and Tuesday January 21, 2003 and at 5:30 a.m. on Monday January 27, 2003.

The Freight Restaurant Film Salon in the Chelsea Market screened Sid at 90 twice on Monday, May 19, 2003.

The JCC in Manhattan screened Sid at 90, with Sid Raymond present, on Thursday, June 19, 2003. 

Howard Weinberg's independent documentary profile of veteran actor/comedian Sid Raymond Sid at 90 is accepted into the Moving Image Collection of the Library of Congress, June 2003.

Then Sid at 90 went on the road, playing at the 6th Annual Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival, October 23, 2003; at the Inaugural Daytona Beach Film Festival, November 9, 2003; and at the Washington, DC Jewish Film Festival, December 9, 2003.

Weinberg attends INPUT, the international public service television screening conference, in Arhus, Denmark, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar at Vassar College.   Weinberg serves as a judge for both the International Emmy Awards and the duPont-Columbia Awards. 

2002

Weinberg and partner Ruth Leon produced and directed NEW YORK IN SONG -- a 90-minute special featuring 30 great cabaret stars paying tribute to "the city that never sleeps". Cablecast by CUNY-TVon the six-month and nine-month anniversaries of 9/11, NEW YORK IN SONG is available on VHS for $39.95 donation to "CSFA - Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund" to benefit educational needs of children of victims of September 11, 2001.

2001-2003:

After two terms as president of The New York Film/Video Council, Weinberg continues to serve on the Board of Directors. He has been a Board member since 1997. The NYFVC is the oldest continuously operating non-profit organization serving the non-theatrical and independent film and video community in New York City. For more information about the council and its programs, visit www.nyfvc.org.