Professor Guido Knopp, born in 1948, has been head of the ZDF History Department since 1984.
Professor Knopp studied History, Politics and Public Relations in Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Würzburg, achieving a Ph. D. in History. He started his professional career in 1976 as editor of the Frankfu...
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Professor Guido Knopp, born in 1948, has been head of the ZDF History Department since 1984.
Professor Knopp studied History, Politics and Public Relations in Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Würzburg, achieving a Ph. D. in History. He started his professional career in 1976 as editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper; he was also Foreign Affairs Editor for the Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag before he joined ZDF in 1989, taking charge of the series "Fragen zur Zeit" (“Questions of the Moment”) before being appointed head of the newly created ZDF Contemporary History Department in 1984. Since 1994 Professor Knopp has also been regularly teaching Journalism at a German college.
He presents the ZDF weekly “History” series and has launched, produced and (co-)written a large number of documentary films and series, including "Die deutsche Einheit" (The German Unity) in 1990, "Der verdammte Krieg" (The Doomed War) in 1991, "Bilder, die Geschichte machten" (Pictures making History) in 1992, “Entscheidung Stalingrad” (The Stalingrad Decision) in 1993, “Top Spione” (Top Spies) in 1994, "Hitler - Eine Bilanz" (Hitler - a Profile) in 1995, "Hitlers Helfer" (Hitler's Henchmen) in 1996 and 1998, "Vatikan - Die Macht der Päpste" (Vatican - the Power of the Popes) in 1997, "Hitlers Krieger" (Hitler's Warriors) in 1998, "Kanzler" (Chancellors) in 1999, “100 Jahre” (100 Years) in 1999 and “Hitlers Kinder” (The Hitler Youth) in 2000. Many of these productions have been co-produced with high-profile international partners such as The History Channel US and broadcast in over 60 countries around the world. His books accompanying these works regularly climb the top of the non-fiction bestseller lists. In the fall of 2000 ZDF broadcast the docu-drama “Deutschlandspiel” (The German Gambit) and the 6-part documentary series “Holokaust”. In 2007, ZDF broadcast the 5-part documentary series “Die Wehrmacht – eine Bilanz” (The Wehrmacht – a Profile), and in 2008, the 10-part documentary series ”Die Deutschen“ (The Germans). 2009 saw the airing of the EMMY nominated docu-drama “Die Wölfe” (The Wolf Pack), and “Die Sternstunden der Deutschen” (Germany’s Stellar Moments), which portraits the greatest moments in German history.

For his work in television Guido Knopp has been honored with numerous awards, including the Bundesverdienstkreuz (the supreme national merit of honor in Germany), the Jacob Kaiser Award, the European Television Award, the Telestar, the Golden Cable, the Golden Lion for German Television, the Bavarian Television Prize, an Award from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Los Angeles, the ROMY (Austrian Television Prize), the CLIO (French Television Prize) and the Hans Klein Media Award.
For the 90minute drama-documentary “Dresden” he received the International Emmy Award in 2005 and the Magnolia Award in 2006. In 2007, Guido Knopp was awarded the Grand Japan Award, and in 2009, he received the Outstanding German Journalist Award.

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Roly Keating is the BBC’s Director of Archive Content. This new role is responsible for the development and implementation of a strategy to radically increase public access to the BBC’s massive archives, whether by publicly-funded or commercial means. Roly acts as overall editorial leader for all ...
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Roly Keating is the BBC’s Director of Archive Content. This new role is responsible for the development and implementation of a strategy to radically increase public access to the BBC’s massive archives, whether by publicly-funded or commercial means. Roly acts as overall editorial leader for all current archive-based services based on the BBC’s core television output.
From 2004 to 2008 Roly was Controller of BBC TWO, overseeing a range of memorable programmes including Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain, The Choir, Extras, Rain In My Heart, Dragons’ Den, Coast, Tribe and Springwatch. BBC TWO was named as Broadcast Channel of the Year in 2007. From October 2007 to May 2008 he took on additional responsibility as Acting Controller, BBC ONE.
After joining the BBC as a General Trainee in 1983 Roly made documentaries for Omnibus, Bookmark and Arena and was Editor of The Late Show and Bookmark.
Roly moved to become Head of Programming for UKTV on its launch in 1997, and in 1999 he was made BBC Controller of Digital Channels. He then became Controller of BBC FOUR, leading the channel’s launch in March 2002.
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Ann Julienne entered the television industry in 1985 when she joined French indie producer/distributor Télé Images. In 1994, Ann was recruited as a member of the start up team at La Cinquième, France's first public educational and knowledge channel. Now known as France 5, it is one of the five chan...
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Ann Julienne entered the television industry in 1985 when she joined French indie producer/distributor Télé Images. In 1994, Ann was recruited as a member of the start up team at La Cinquième, France's first public educational and knowledge channel. Now known as France 5, it is one of the five channels of the Groupe France Télévisions which comprises also France 2 and France 3. At France 5 (which is the premier broadcaster of documentaries in the public television arena in France), Ann Julienne was long Head of Acquisitions and International co-productions. In June 2009, Ann Julienne was named Head of International development at France Télévisions. Widely traveled since the age of five, Ann has lived in six different countries and is a dual national of France and the US. [ Minimize ]

David McKillop was appointed Senior Vice President, Development and Programming, for HISTORY in April 2007.

In this role, McKillop oversees the network’s programming team, and is responsible for the development, creation and execution of all programming for HISTORY. He is also charge...
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David McKillop was appointed Senior Vice President, Development and Programming, for HISTORY in April 2007.

In this role, McKillop oversees the network’s programming team, and is responsible for the development, creation and execution of all programming for HISTORY. He is also charged with imaginatively integrating new programming with on-line initiatives, and developing new ways to expand the brand across multiple platforms. He reports directly to Nancy Dubuc, President and General Manager of HISTORY.

Under his leadership HISTORY has launched the most acclaimed and highest-rated series and specials in its own history. McKillop serves as the Executive Producer of HISTORY’s top series of all time, Ice Road Truckers, Pawn Stars and Ax Men. He also served as Executive Producer of numerous acclaimed and top-rated HISTORY specials including the Emmy® award winning 102 Minutes that Changed America, Life After People, 1968 With Tom Brokaw, King, and Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed, and the recent JFK: 3 Shots that Changed America. [ Minimize ]

Jean-Luc VERNHET joined Ina (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel) in 2000 to become a member of the Board of Directors. In charge of Marketing and Sales, he is responsible for developing the licensing of archives worldwide to a large number of producers, broadcasters, home video publishers and commun...
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Jean-Luc VERNHET joined Ina (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel) in 2000 to become a member of the Board of Directors. In charge of Marketing and Sales, he is responsible for developing the licensing of archives worldwide to a large number of producers, broadcasters, home video publishers and communication agencies. Joining Ina at the beginning of the digital turnaround, he contributed in developing and launching in 2004 “Inamediapro”, the world’s largest online archives library to date, the first “webtool” designed for film researchers and TV producers. In a new strategic move, Ina has been in the past few years expanding its offer – outside the French public broadcasters output – by securing commercial deals with private collections including for instance IOC contents and the premium “Yann Arthus Bertrand” aerials. A graduate of Marketing and Communication from Paris University, Jean-Luc Vernhet developed most of his previous career with positions in marketing research and marketing information systems for various consumers’ goods companies. [ Minimize ]

As Senior Vice President of Global Acquisitions, Carlyn Staudt is responsible for sourcing and licensing acquisitions for both National Geographic Channels International and National Geographic Channel US, and overseeing a newly created infrastructure for a global acquisitions team. She also suppor...
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As Senior Vice President of Global Acquisitions, Carlyn Staudt is responsible for sourcing and licensing acquisitions for both National Geographic Channels International and National Geographic Channel US, and overseeing a newly created infrastructure for a global acquisitions team. She also supports NGC’s growing channels including Nat Geo Adventure, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Wild HD, and NGC HD, as each channel continues to expand in distribution. At a strategic level, Staudt is responsible for structuring programming supply deals that take into account cross-channel synergies, specific regional needs and the growing demand for expanded media rights.

Previously as Director of Programming for NGCI, Staudt was responsible for sourcing and contracting acquisitions, co-productions and original programming. Staudt also negotiated and administered regional programming initiatives such as the MDA and EDB fund in Singapore, the GIO fund in Taiwan and the Ancine fund in Brazil. Staudt joined NGCI as Senior Manager of Programming in 2002.

Staudt holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from the University of Notre Dame.

National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) invites viewers to live curious through its smart, innovative programming that questions what we know, how we view the world and what drives us forward. A business enterprise owned by National Geographic Television (NGT) and FOX Entertainment Group, NGCI contributes to the National Geographic Society's commitment to exploration, conservation and education through its six channels: National Geographic Channel, National Geographic Channel HD, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Wild HD, Nat Geo Adventure and Nat Geo Music.

Globally, National Geographic Channel (including NGC U.S., which is a joint venture of NGT and Fox Cable Networks Group) is available in more than 315 million homes in 166 countries and 34 languages.

© National Geographic Channel / Mark Thiessen

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Brian Lapping, Chairman and Executive Producer Brook Lapping, also Chairman, Teachers TV, is a programme-maker and historian who started his career working as a journalist on The Guardian and The Financial Times. He then became Executive Producer including World in Action and End of Empire (14 x 1H...
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Brian Lapping, Chairman and Executive Producer Brook Lapping, also Chairman, Teachers TV, is a programme-maker and historian who started his career working as a journalist on The Guardian and The Financial Times. He then became Executive Producer including World in Action and End of Empire (14 x 1H) for Granada. As an independent, Brian won the first contract put out to indies by BBC Current Affairs – to run Question Time for three years. He has been jointly responsible with Norma Percy for THE SECOND RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, WATERGATE, THE DEATH OF YUGOSLAVIA, THE 50 YEARS WAR, ISRAEL AND THE ARABS, PLAYING THE CHINA CARD, ENDGAME IN IRELAND, AVENGING TERROR, THE FALL OF MILOSEVIC, ELUSIVE PEACE, ISRAEL AND THE ARABS and IRAN & THE WEST. These award-winning series have been shown in more than 30 countries.

Brian was awarded a CBE in 2005 for services to broadcasting.

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Norma Percy, Director of Brook Lapping and Executive Producer, has been Series Producer of all the series which a BBC policy statement in 1995 described as ‘virtually a new genre of documentary’ that retells momentous events from the recent past with meticulous objectivity and with the principal ac...
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Norma Percy, Director of Brook Lapping and Executive Producer, has been Series Producer of all the series which a BBC policy statement in 1995 described as ‘virtually a new genre of documentary’ that retells momentous events from the recent past with meticulous objectivity and with the principal actors recording their version of what happened.

A Guardian leader in ‘Praise of Norma Percy (17 February 2009) wrote: Her documentaries stand out ...most of all for the extraordinary range of people who agree to appear on them ...Every significant international story seems to have its Percy film. THE SECOND RUSSIAN REVOLUTION followed the fall of the Soviet Union. THE DEATH OF YUGOSLAVIA traced the causes and consequences of the Balkan wars. Two series, ELUSIVE PEACE and THE 50 YEARS WAR, examined the Israeli-Arab conflict, and the peace process that approached success but never achieved it, while ENDGAME IN IRELAND explained how a conflict was resolved. And IRAN & THE WEST ...produced by Percy, working with executive producer Brian Lapping, whose company sustains the gold standard of documentary making.

These series have won Brian and Norma more than two dozen major awards including an EMMY, two BAFTA’s, four Royal Television Society journalism awards, three Columbia University du Pont journalism awards and are broadcast worldwide.

Norma was made a fellow of the Royal Television Society in 2000, received an honorary degree from City University in 2004 and both the 2000 and the 2003 James Cameron prizes for outstanding journalism.

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Ed Hersh is the senior vice president of strategic planning for Investigation Discovery, part of the Discovery Emerging Networks group. In this position, Hersh is responsible for developing ID's long-term content, production, acquisition, and brand strategy. Prior to joining Discovery Communicati...
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Ed Hersh is the senior vice president of strategic planning for Investigation Discovery, part of the Discovery Emerging Networks group. In this position, Hersh is responsible for developing ID's long-term content, production, acquisition, and brand strategy. Prior to joining Discovery Communications, Hersh was founder and chief creative officer of StoryCentric LLC, a New York‐based company that provided strategy and solutions to both media networks and content creators, including WNET in New York where he developed “Blueprint America,” a year-long PBS initiative on the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. He spent seven years at Court TV (now truTV), most recently as Executive Vice‐President, Current Programming and Specials, where he was the executive in charge of the network’s primetime original non‐fiction series and specials. He is a graduate of Syracuse University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and has served on the adjunct faculty of both institutions. He also is an advisor to ETMA, the European Television and Media Management Academy in Strasbourg, France. [ Minimize ]

Thomas Ricks is the author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003-05, which was a no. 1 New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. His second book on that war, The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-08, was publi...
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Thomas Ricks is the author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003-05, which was a no. 1 New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. His second book on that war, The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-08, was published in February 2009, and also became a New York Times bestseller. He also wrote Making the Corps, which won the Washington Monthly's "Political Book of the Year" award. In addition to his newspaper work, he has written on defense matters for the Atlantic Monthly and other publications. His first novel, A Soldier's Duty, about the U.S. military intervening in Afghanistan, was published by Random House in June 2001--some four months before the U.S. actually did intervene there.

He covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. (Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at the Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for 17 years.) He has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq. In January 2009 he joined the Center for a New American Security, where he serves as a counselor and is researching the history of American officership, in particular the American idea of what a general should do and be. He also became a contributing editor for Foreign Policy magazine, for which he writes a blog called “The Best Defense.” (http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/

He was part of a Wall Street Journal team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2000 for a series of articles on how the U.S. military might change to meet the new demands of the 21st century is posted at:
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2000/national-reporting/works

Ricks also was part of a Washington Post team that won the 2002 Pulitzer prize for reporting about the beginning of the U.S. counteroffensive against terrorism. Those articles are posted at:
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2002/national-reporting/works/

Born in Massachusetts in 1955, he grew up in New York and Afghanistan and graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 1977. He now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife. For recreation he enjoys whitewater kayaking, downhill skiing and reading military history. He is a member of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, the Society for Military History, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

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Richard is a founder of Lion Television, one of the industry’s most successful production companies. Richard specializes in both popular and ambitious history, science, arts and documentary projects. Under his creative leadership, Lion has assembled one of the most widely respected historical, docum...
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Richard is a founder of Lion Television, one of the industry’s most successful production companies. Richard specializes in both popular and ambitious history, science, arts and documentary projects. Under his creative leadership, Lion has assembled one of the most widely respected historical, documentary and specialist factual programme producing units with a worldwide reputation for innovative and accessible television. Richard’s recent credits at Lion include Horrible Histories (CBBC/BBC One), Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer (Discovery/BBC One/NHK), Hottest Place on Earth (BBC One) and Great Wall of China (C4/France 5/Discovery). Richard was also involved in devising Britain from Above (BBC One/Two/Four/BBC on-line), Victorian Farm (BBC2) and Chinese School (BBC Four). Richard has unparalleled experience of the joys and challenges of ambitious co-productions, and has enjoyed creating pioneering production partnerships in Asia and the Middle-East.
Prior to founding Lion, Richard was a successful director and producer at the BBC for 12 years where he won many awards including two Emmys. And before that he was a teacher in rural Kenya.

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Alan Hayling is Editorial Director of Renegade Pictures Limited which he started in 2006 with his film-maker partner Alex Cooke. It’s very quickly established itself as a leading producer of high quality documentaries and factual formats, and has completed series and documentaries for the BBC, Chan...
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Alan Hayling is Editorial Director of Renegade Pictures Limited which he started in 2006 with his film-maker partner Alex Cooke. It’s very quickly established itself as a leading producer of high quality documentaries and factual formats, and has completed series and documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky tv in the UK, for National Geographic, the Discovery Channel and HBO in the US, and for ARTE/ZDF in Germany and France.

Prior to forming Renegade Pictures, Alan was Head of Documentaries at the BBC where he was responsible for the production of factual programmes and documentaries for all BBC channels. Among his achievements was the multi award winning film “Children of Beslan” about the massacre of schoolchildren at a primary school in Beslan, Russia.

He also spent 10 years as a commissioning editor for documentaries at Channel 4 Television – Britain’s “alternative” mainstream terrestrial broadcaster – where he was responsible for documentary series such as Secret History, Secret Lives, Undercover Britain ¬and commissioned and worked with distinguished documentary makers such as Michael Moore and Errol Morris, Molly Dineen, Phil Agland and Nick Broomfield. He was the Channel 4 Executive with responsibility for working with Michael Moore on his series The Awful Truth and his hit documentary feature Bowling for Columbine.

At Renegade Pictures, among the many films that Alan has executive produced is the award-winning The Boys from Baghdad High, in which four teenagers from Baghdad record their final year at High school, The Yes Men Fix the World which won the audience award at the Berlin Film Festival and the Grierson award for Most Entertaining Documentary this year, and The Queen in 3D, Channel 4’s first ever 3D documentary which will be shown at the History Congress. [ Minimize ]

Bill Cran started out at the BBC, where he spent eight years, including two as a producer for the topical documentary program Panorama. He left the BBC and became a Senior Producer with CBC in Toronto. Bill then moved to the USA, where he embarked on a long professional relationship with WGBH in ...
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Bill Cran started out at the BBC, where he spent eight years, including two as a producer for the topical documentary program Panorama. He left the BBC and became a Senior Producer with CBC in Toronto. Bill then moved to the USA, where he embarked on a long professional relationship with WGBH in Boston. Since then he has made some 50 full-length documentaries and won more than two dozen awards, including 4 Emmys, 3 DuPont-Columbias, 2 Peabody’s, 2 Overseas Press Clubs, New York Film Festival Awards and many nominations in the US, UK and Canada..

His favourite films include Chachaji My Poor Relation (WGBH), 88 Seconds in Greensboro (WGBH), The Search for the Marcos Millions (WGBH/BBC), The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover (WGBH/BBC), The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald (WGBH/BBC), Pablo Escobar the Godfather of Cocaine (WGBH/BBC), Ambush in Mogadishu (WGBH/BBC) and Nelson’s Trafalgar (Channel 4 UK). In April 2007 PBS used Bill’s Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda (WETA & Channel 4 UK) to launch the week of special programming called America at a Crossroads. 2008 Jihad won a DuPont Columbia award and an Emmy nomination.

Bill Cran has produced seven series including The Story of English (9 hours for BBC/WNET), The Prize, (8 hours for WGBH/BBC), From Jesus to Christ (4 hours for WGBH), Red Files (4 hours for PBS/DDE) and Commanding Heights (6 hours for WGBH/BBC), Do You Speak American? (3 hours for ML/WNET) and Extreme Oil (3 hours for BBC/PBS/CBC).

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Mr. Locke specialises in history projects and also the developing world and observational series. Recent productions include Ape to Man, a special film for the History Channel telling the story of the discovery of human evolution (winner of an Emmy for best documentary script and the US Academy of S...
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Mr. Locke specialises in history projects and also the developing world and observational series. Recent productions include Ape to Man, a special film for the History Channel telling the story of the discovery of human evolution (winner of an Emmy for best documentary script and the US Academy of Science's best television programme award), African School, a series following life in the Ugandan town of Masindi for the BBC's Africa Lives season (the series won 2 One World Awards), The Queen's Cavalry, a behind-the-scenes series about the Household Cavalry for BBC1, The First Emperor, for Discovery and Channel 4 about Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor and Prince Eddy, The King We Never Had, a high rating programme revealing the truth about Queen Victoria's oldest grandson. For Five he recently made The Secret Life of Queen Elizabeth. Bill also directed Helen of Troy, presented by Bettany Hughes, for Channel 4/PBS. In recent years, Bill has worked on The Four Minute Mile for the BBC, Weapons That Made Britain for Channel 4. Bill has also overseen two series of Britain's Finest, a highly successful heritage series for Five. Bill was the series producer of Royal Deaths and Diseases for Channel 4, The Tower, the very successful eight part series about the history of the Tower of London also for Channel 4 and Hitler's Britain for Five which won a Cine Golden Eagle. In an earlier spell with Lion, Bill series produced LAX, a three part series behind the scenes at Los Angeles International Airport for A&E / Five, and directed Naked Eurovision, a light-hearted portrait of the Eurovision Song Contest. Prior to joining Lion, Bill spent a season as series producer of Meet The Ancestors, BBC2's high rating archaeology series. From 1995-97 Bill lived in Ethiopia, making films for the BBC World Service and a variety of Non-Governmental Organisations, including the United Nations. Before living in Africa, Bill worked in BBC children's television, working for four years as a studio and location director on Blue Peter. [ Minimize ]

Philip Armstrong-Dampier joined ITN in 2000. Philip seeks out original commissions from broadcasters in the UK and across the globe including ITV, Channel 4, Five, Discovery, National Geographic and A&E Networks.

At ITN Factual, Philip has executive produced more than 200 programmes ...
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Philip Armstrong-Dampier joined ITN in 2000. Philip seeks out original commissions from broadcasters in the UK and across the globe including ITV, Channel 4, Five, Discovery, National Geographic and A&E Networks.

At ITN Factual, Philip has executive produced more than 200 programmes including Diana - The Witnesses in the Tunnel (Channel 4), The First Head Transplant (Five/National Geographic) and Science of Interrogation (National Geographic/Discovery Canada). More recently ITN Factual produced its first ever HD series Pandamonium for Animal Planet and the Channel 4 series What Really Happened which saw journalist Jacques Peretti going behind the tabloid headlines of celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Ian Burrell, Dodi Al Fayed and Heather Mills.

Prior to working for ITN Factual, Philip worked for Twentieth Century Fox, CBS News, Thames Television and Television South. As an independent he ran his own company, Outpost Films.

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Zuzana has worked at the Associated Press since 2006, where she heads up the United Press International Television News film restoration project. The project was launched to resurrect the archive which had been hidden away for decades because its text index had become lost. The AP is restoring the 3...
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Zuzana has worked at the Associated Press since 2006, where she heads up the United Press International Television News film restoration project. The project was launched to resurrect the archive which had been hidden away for decades because its text index had become lost. The AP is restoring the 3,500 hours of international news footage, converting it to HD and creating a new text index. Zuzana is a Cultural Studies & Film graduate of King’s College, London, and holds an MA in History of Film & Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London. Prior to working at the AP, Zuzana has worked in the film industry sector, selling independent documentaries to distributors worldwide.

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A director, writer, and cinematographer, David Grubin has produced over 100 films, ranging from history to art, from poetry to science, winning every award in the field of documentary television, including 2 Alfred I. Dupont awards, 3 George Foster Peabody prizes, 4 Writer's Guild prizes, and 10 Emm...
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A director, writer, and cinematographer, David Grubin has produced over 100 films, ranging from history to art, from poetry to science, winning every award in the field of documentary television, including 2 Alfred I. Dupont awards, 3 George Foster Peabody prizes, 4 Writer's Guild prizes, and 10 Emmys.

His biographies for American Experience on PBS - LBJ, FDR, Truman, TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided - have set the standard for television biography. His five-part series for PBS - Healing And The Mind with Bill Moyers - has won many awards, and the companion book, for which he was executive editor, rose to number one on The New York Times Best Sellers list, remaining on the list for 32 weeks.

A member of the executive committee of the Society of American Historians, Grubin has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Hamilton College. He is member of the Writers Guild and Directors Guild, and is a former chairman of the board of directors of The Film Forum.

His film The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a two-hour biography for American Experience which aired on PBS in January 2009, was recently nominated for 2 Emmys. He is currently working on a new 2 hour biography - The Buddha.

He is married to the artist Joan Grubin and lives in New York City.

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Charlie Maday is the Senior Vice President, Military Programming and Public Affairs, The History Channel. Before his current position Mr. Maday was Senior Vice President, Programming, The History Channel, and was the executive in charge of program development and strategy for seven years.
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Charlie Maday is the Senior Vice President, Military Programming and Public Affairs, The History Channel. Before his current position Mr. Maday was Senior Vice President, Programming, The History Channel, and was the executive in charge of program development and strategy for seven years.

Mr. Maday is a veteran of the documentary programming and production. He has been with A&E Television Networks since 1987, supervising a wide variety of documentary projects including a number of award-winning international co-productions. Under Mr. Maday, The History Channel has received numerous awards, including Primetime Emmy, Emmy News & Documentary, and Peabody Awards.

Prior to A&E Television Mr. Maday spent ten years in distribution and programming in public television on a national and local level. He was programming head of WMHT in Albany , New York. He was one of the youngest programming chiefs in the nation.

Mr. Maday received a Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors in Political Science and Economics from Canisius College, Buffalo, NY from which he holds a distinguished alumni award. He obtained a Master of Public Administration Degree from The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at The University of Michigan and a Master of Arts Degree in Speech Communications, Television and Film, from Northwestern University. [ Minimize ]

Dhaliwal is a seasoned broadcaster who has worked for some of the world’s most respected news organizations, including CNN International and BBC News. She has covered many of the major news stories of the last ten years, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the conflicts in the Middle East an...
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Dhaliwal is a seasoned broadcaster who has worked for some of the world’s most respected news organizations, including CNN International and BBC News. She has covered many of the major news stories of the last ten years, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the conflicts in the Middle East and the Balkans, just to name a few. Most recently, Dhaliwal hosted of Foreign Exchange, a weekly half-hour international affairs series on PBS that examines America’s role in an increasingly complex and interdependent world. The series probes the global questions of the moment through conversations with international newsmakers, politicians, diplomats, and journalists. Dhaliwal has covered breaking news, live events and interviewed a wide range of newsmakers and personalities ranging from the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and rapper T.I. She has also interviewed Pakistan’s assassinated opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, Russia’s Sergei Lavrov, former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright, Senator George Mitchell, Northern Ireland’s Gerry Adams, and Israel’s Ehud Olmert and Shimon Peres just to name a few. Dhaliwal has reported from Singapore and India, and mostly recently from the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for Worldfocus. [ Minimize ]

Julian P. Hobbs is an Executive Producer at HISTORY. He oversees some of the network's top rated series and specials such as Barbara Kopple's "Woodstock: Then and Now", HISTORY’S top rated series "Ice Road Truckers" and the highly anticipated "America: The Story of Us", premiering in 2010. As a de...
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Julian P. Hobbs is an Executive Producer at HISTORY. He oversees some of the network's top rated series and specials such as Barbara Kopple's "Woodstock: Then and Now", HISTORY’S top rated series "Ice Road Truckers" and the highly anticipated "America: The Story of Us", premiering in 2010. As a development executive, Hobbs developed HISTORY'S break out hit "Pawn Stars". Hobbs joined HISTORY in 2008.

Previously Hobbs served as the Senior Director of Development and an Executive Producer for the Discovery Channel, were he EP’ed "The Flight That Fought Back" and "Ocean of Fear", both among the network’s top ten all time highest rated programs. He also served as Executive Producer for Werner Herzog's "Oscar nominated Encounters at the End of the World". [ Minimize ]

Lilla has accumulated a cross section of experience over the past twelve years in production, distribution & broadcasting. In 2001 she was appointed as Head of Acquisitions & Co-production at RDF Rights where she was responsible for the £3m Indies’ Investment Fund. In 2004 she then moved to set up C...
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Lilla has accumulated a cross section of experience over the past twelve years in production, distribution & broadcasting. In 2001 she was appointed as Head of Acquisitions & Co-production at RDF Rights where she was responsible for the £3m Indies’ Investment Fund. In 2004 she then moved to set up Channel Five’s co-production dept and generated over £10m in co-finance for a range of factual, comedy & drama projects. In 2008 Lilla left Five to launch Lillavision and is now working alongside broadcasters & independent producers to raise pre-sale and co-production finance across all genres for film & television. Projects that Lillavision executive co-produced in 2009 include: Churchill’s Darkest Decision – Furnace TV Mumbai Massacre – Furnace Tv & Electric Pictures Around The World in 90 Minutes – Burning Blue Media Sex, Death & The Gods – Cross Street Films Companies that are currently contracted to Lillavision are: Furnace TV, Cross Street Films, Dartmouth Films, Testimony Films & Dox Productions. [ Minimize ]

Prior to forming Furnace Limited in 2008, Phil spent nine years as producer, executive producer and finally joint head of programmes at Brook Lapping Productions of London, helping that company win a towering international reputation for ambitious documentary and drama-documentary. In his role at Br...
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Prior to forming Furnace Limited in 2008, Phil spent nine years as producer, executive producer and finally joint head of programmes at Brook Lapping Productions of London, helping that company win a towering international reputation for ambitious documentary and drama-documentary. In his role at Brook Lapping Phil wrote, produced and executive produced a wide range of films and series, many of which were complex international co-productions, including Ocean of Fear, Catherine the Great, The Flight That Fought Back, Attack on the Pentagon, The Great Escape: The Reckoning, Blogwars, Blood in the Water and Sharkbite Summer. In 2009 Phil executive produced two films for Furnace – Churchill’s Darkest Decision and Surviving Mumbai (called Secrets of The Dead: Mumbai Massacre in the USA). In addition to his TV work Phil has co-written five history books, including the bestselling Finest Hour, The End of the Beginning, Diana: Story of a Princess, and Trafalgar: the Men, the Battle, the Storm. He is currently working on a book on the Battle of Waterloo. [ Minimize ]

David Bianculli has a B. S. in Journalism and an M. A. in Journalism and Communications, both from the University of Florida. He has been a television critic for 35 years, mostly with New York daily newspapers. Since 1987, he’s been TV critic and substitute host for NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross,...
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David Bianculli has a B. S. in Journalism and an M. A. in Journalism and Communications, both from the University of Florida. He has been a television critic for 35 years, mostly with New York daily newspapers. Since 1987, he’s been TV critic and substitute host for NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and launched the www.tvworthwatching.com website in 2007. He is the author of three books on TV, the most recent of which is Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, published by Simon & Schuster/Touchstone in December 2009. [ Minimize ]

David Royle is Smithsonian Networks’ EVP, Programming and Production. In that role, Royle oversees the commissioning, acquiring and co-producing of series, specials and features for the Networks. Royle joined Smithsonian Networks to bring a distinctive and creative point-of-view to the Networks’ edi...
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David Royle is Smithsonian Networks’ EVP, Programming and Production. In that role, Royle oversees the commissioning, acquiring and co-producing of series, specials and features for the Networks. Royle joined Smithsonian Networks to bring a distinctive and creative point-of-view to the Networks’ editorial direction. Since it’s launch in September 2007, the Smithsonian Channel HD has expanded rapidly and is now available by satellite, cable and telecom service throughout America. It has won numerous awards and critical acclaim for its original programming and in 2008 became the youngest channel ever to win an Emmy. Royle was previously EVP of Production for National Geographic Television & Film where he launched and oversaw numerous productions including “SuperCroc”, “Search for the Afghan Girl”, and the highly-rated “Taboo” series. He was Executive Producer of the award-winning television series, National Geographic EXPLORER. Under his leadership EXPLORER won more News and Documentary Emmy Awards than any other show on TV. As an independent filmmaker in New York, he produced, wrote and directed programming for a wide range of broadcasters. His credits include: Hedrick Smith’s groundbreaking examination of the fall of the Soviet Union, “Inside Gorbachev’s USSR”, PBS’s “Senator Sam” and the 52-part A&E series about the Cold War “The Eagle & The Bear.” He was one of the producers of the primetime Emmy Award-winning NBC comedy series, “Michael Moore’s TV Nation” and directed for TLC’s real life “ER” series, “Trauma.” David Royle’s numerous awards include seven Emmies, the George Polk Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and du Pont-Columbia Silver and Gold Batons. He was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina and earned his MA at the University of Minnesota where he was a Rotary Foundation International Journalism Scholar. [ Minimize ]

Ben Loeterman is a prolific writer/producer/director of historical and public affairs documentaries, mostly for PBS. He worked for the current affairs series FRONTLINE during its first twenty years. His films spanned subjects ranging from criminal justice in What Jennifer Saw, to the Rwandan genoc...
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Ben Loeterman is a prolific writer/producer/director of historical and public affairs documentaries, mostly for PBS. He worked for the current affairs series FRONTLINE during its first twenty years. His films spanned subjects ranging from criminal justice in What Jennifer Saw, to the Rwandan genocide in The Triumph of Evil.

Loeterman has contributed three films to American Experience: Golden Gate Bridge, about one man’s obsession to build it, Public Enemy #1, about the desperado John Dillinger, and Rescue at Sea, about a White Star liner crash three years before the Titanic. He delivered two hours for WQED’s War That Made America, about the French and Indian War, and has contributed programs to Sundance Channel and Discovery. His latest film, The People v. Leo Frank premiered this fall on PBS. Loeterman has been awarded two Emmy’s for directing and investigative reporting, two duPont-Columbia batons and Amnesty International’s Spotlight award.

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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (www.goldhagen.com) is the author of the just published Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, which is about reconceptualizing, understanding, and finally stopping genocide. Judged as “intensely researched,” “convincing,” and “wholly o...
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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (www.goldhagen.com) is the author of the just published Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, which is about reconceptualizing, understanding, and finally stopping genocide. Judged as “intensely researched,” “convincing,” and “wholly original” by Kirkus (starred), and “magisterial” by the New York Times, Worse Than War is also the basis for a major PBS documentary (airing on April 14, 2010), which is the first documentary treatment of the phenomenon of genocide itself.
Goldhagen is also the author of the #1 international bestseller Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, which the New York Times acclaimed as “masterly…one of those rare new works that merit the appellation landmark” and which may have generated as much international discussion as any book in our time. Goldhagen, together with the eponymous international debate, the “Goldhagen Debate” about the perpetrators of the Holocaust has been the subject of dozens of scholarly and popular books, in addition to innumerable media profiles and reports.

Born in 1959, Goldhagen received a B.A. (summa cum laude), M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Until deciding to devote himself full time to writing and speaking, he was a professor in Harvard University’s Government and Social Studies departments.

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Amanda Huntley loves History. On leaving university with a classics degree, she thought she was heading for a career in Archaeology. She now finds that she has done 25 years at the other end of the history timeline and film archiving documentaries of the 20th century has become her life’s work.
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Amanda Huntley loves History. On leaving university with a classics degree, she thought she was heading for a career in Archaeology. She now finds that she has done 25 years at the other end of the history timeline and film archiving documentaries of the 20th century has become her life’s work.
Huntley Film Archives bills itself as a social history archive, films of the lives of ordinary people around the world, doing ordinary things: working, at leisure and with the family.

Film is an extraordinary way to get close to the past, Amanda is dedicated to preservation and training. Ensuring Film Archiving skills for the next generation is her current goal.

Huntley Film Archives (huntleyarchives.com) is probably the world’s largest independent film archive, but Old King Street Farm (llamasllamas.co.uk) is definitely the world’s best llama farm. It’s good to have an alternative career lined up !


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Kirk Wolfinger has worked in the film industry for 25 years during which time he has produced and directed numerous critically acclaimed documentary programs presented nationally and internationally on major networks. Most recent work includes Executive Producing and Directing 35, 60 minute episo...
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Kirk Wolfinger has worked in the film industry for 25 years during which time he has produced and directed numerous critically acclaimed documentary programs presented nationally and internationally on major networks. Most recent work includes Executive Producing and Directing 35, 60 minute episodes of The History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives and a two hour special for THC, Titanic's Achilles Heel, a sequel to the history making documentary Titanic's Final Moment's: Missing Pieces. Other recent broadcast credits include a two hour History Channel special based on Gene Krantz' book Failure Is Not An Option, and a sequel to that production titled Beyond the Moon. Other Lone Wolf productions led by Wolfinger include the NOVA programs To The Moon and Hitler's Lost Sub, the latter of which became the inspiration for the bestseller Shadow Divers. Also of note were the productions Ravens: Covert War In Laos for Discovery Times, and Mayday: Lost At Sea and Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack for National Geographic Specials. In 2002 Wolfinger and Rocky Collins won a National Emmy for their NOVA/New York Times production of Bioterror. The pair were nominated the next year for their NOVA, Dirty Bomb. While working with Varied Directions International, Kirk served as Series Producer and Director for Turner's highly acclaimed original series, Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon. In addition he also produced Portrait of Castro's Cuba for TBS, and two episodes of the PBS series Making Sense of the Sixties. Some of Kirk's later work at Varied Directions included Submarine!, Daredevils of the Sky, Titanic's Lost Sister, Battle Alert In The Gulf, The Beast of Loch Ness and Lincoln's Secret Weapon, all created for WGBH's series, NOVA. In addition to the Emmy won for Bioterror, Wolfinger has won a second Emmy, received a George F. Peabody Award, an American Film Festival Blue Ribbon and the Independent Documentary Association Award. Lone Wolf Documentary Group was founded in 1997 by Kirk and Lisa Wolfinger. Over the past ten years they have assembled a terrific team of talented professionals who have a passion for filmmaking and a desire to live and work in a place that sustains that desire. No film Kirk has made gives him as much satisfaction as the Company he and Lisa helped to create. [ Minimize ]

Since 1998, Melanie Wallace has been the Senior Series Producer for NOVA, the longest running, most successful science series on American television, now in its 36th season. She is connected to all aspects of production: Searching for new talent, innovative program ideas, and co-production opportun...
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Since 1998, Melanie Wallace has been the Senior Series Producer for NOVA, the longest running, most successful science series on American television, now in its 36th season. She is connected to all aspects of production: Searching for new talent, innovative program ideas, and co-production opportunities. Melanie is the driving force behind all the deals brokered between NOVA and NOVA's numerous international partners and has also served on numerous boards in both science and the arts

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Gaylen Ross has produced, directed and written award-winning documentary films that have received national and international broadcast and exhibition. Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival, broadcast on BBC’s Storyville, ...
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Gaylen Ross has produced, directed and written award-winning documentary films that have received national and international broadcast and exhibition. Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival, broadcast on BBC’s Storyville, and is currently in theatrical release. It was named in Israel’s Jerusalem Post as one of the 10 best films of the year. She produced and wrote the Emmy Award winning Blood Money: Switzerland’s Nazi Gold a feature-length documentary for A&E TV on the Swiss Banks and the Holocaust accounts, premiering at the Berlin Film Festival. Her documentaries combining history and investigation include such diverse subjects as Las Vegas, diamond dealers, Russian brides, and bank fraud and have aired on BBC, Channel 4, PBS, A&E, CBC, RAI, and NTV.

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From October 2005, Clémence Coppey was commissioning editor for history at France 2. In the new structure at France Télévision, effective since the beginning of 2010, she will continue to commission history programs for France 2, where she commissions both for the Thursday 11pm documentary slot Infr...
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From October 2005, Clémence Coppey was commissioning editor for history at France 2. In the new structure at France Télévision, effective since the beginning of 2010, she will continue to commission history programs for France 2, where she commissions both for the Thursday 11pm documentary slot Infra-Red and the monthly prime-time slot. Clémence has executive produced landmark programs like “Apocalypse”, “Versailles, a King’s Dream”, “Louis XV, the Black Sun”, “Einsatzgruppen”, “Who killed Maggie”. She was also in charge of international co-productions for France 2 history documentaries. She has worked with the BBC on programs such as The Diary of Anne Frank (Darlow Smithson Productions), Egypt, Krakatoa , 9/11 (Dangerous Films) and “Atlantis”.

After talking a degree in Political Science, Clémence was a producer for ten years at indie production house Les Films à Lou. She produced numerous documentaries for France 2, France 3, France 5, ARTE, RFBF, RTSR, BBC.

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Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Barak Goodman has been writing, producing, and directing documentaries for more than fifteen years. His recent credits for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE include The Boy in the Bubble (2007), The Lobotomist (2008), and The Assassination of Abraham Lincol...
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Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Barak Goodman has been writing, producing, and directing documentaries for more than fifteen years. His recent credits for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE include The Boy in the Bubble (2007), The Lobotomist (2008), and The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (2009) and the upcoming My Lai (2010). Goodman’s additional credits include A Hidden Life and The Persuaders for PBS’s FRONTLINE and Einstein’s Letter for the History Channel’s 10 Days that Changed the World. He is the recipient of the DuPont-Columbia Award, George Foster Peabody Award, the RFK Journalism Prize, and has twice been invited to premiere his films at the Sundance Film Festival. With wife and filmmaker Rachel Dretzin, Goodman is co-founder of Ark Media, based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Stephen Segaller is Vice President of Content for WNET.ORG, heading up the creation of all national and local programming from the company’s producing subsidiaries – Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group. Among these acclaimed productions are: Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Secrets...
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Stephen Segaller is Vice President of Content for WNET.ORG, heading up the creation of all national and local programming from the company’s producing subsidiaries – Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group. Among these acclaimed productions are: Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Secrets of the Dead, Wide Angle, Worldfocus, Exposé , Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, Cyberchase, SundayArts, Reel 13 and many documentary films and series. For nine years to January 2008 he was WNET’s Director of News and Public Affairs Programming. He has been a journalist, producer, director, writer and author whose work has been broadcast and published on both sides of the Atlantic and all over the world. [ Minimize ]

Alberta Nokes has commissioned and executive produced more than 500 hours for Vision TV, Canada, including several international co-productions. She has been a freelance exec for History Canada on projects ranging from marine technology to biker gangs. Recent projects include developing and exec pro...
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Alberta Nokes has commissioned and executive produced more than 500 hours for Vision TV, Canada, including several international co-productions. She has been a freelance exec for History Canada on projects ranging from marine technology to biker gangs. Recent projects include developing and exec producing Secrets of Christianity ( 7 X 1 hour) with Associated Producers for History US and History Canada and developing a documentary currently in production for HBO and Global, Canada on international organ trafficking with Associated Producers’ Ric Bienstock, winner of the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for her film Sex Slaves. Ms. Nokes is also working on new projects with Reel Time Images. [ Minimize ]

Russ McCarroll is an Executive Producer for History. He oversees development and production of programming for a wide range of series and specials including the critically acclaimed The People Speak, The White House: Behind Closed Doors, and History’s hit show MonsterQuest. Prior to joining Hist...
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Russ McCarroll is an Executive Producer for History. He oversees development and production of programming for a wide range of series and specials including the critically acclaimed The People Speak, The White House: Behind Closed Doors, and History’s hit show MonsterQuest. Prior to joining History in 2008, Russ was an independent producer in New York working on various projects including the documentary film “Crimes Against Nature,” based on the best selling New York Times book of the same name. McCarroll was a producer at NBC News from 2002 to 2006. Before joining NBC, he was a freelance sports producer working on everything from the NBA basketball, Major League Baseball, and the US Tennis Open to the Eco-Challenge, Iditarod and Gravity Games. His work was recognized in 2000 and 2006 with Emmy Awards. And in 2005, Russ was honored with an Edward R. Murrow award. His work also been recognized by the Banff and New York Film Festivals. [ Minimize ]

Robert Lang, founder and president of Kensington Communications, is an internationally recognized, award-winning documentary and interactive media producer and director with over 25 years of production experience. He recently completed the 20-part City Sonic multiplatform film series which premiered...
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Robert Lang, founder and president of Kensington Communications, is an internationally recognized, award-winning documentary and interactive media producer and director with over 25 years of production experience. He recently completed the 20-part City Sonic multiplatform film series which premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival (citysonic.tv); the 3-part Gemini Award-winning series Diamond Road and its acclaimed interactive documentary, Diamond Road Online (diamondroad.tv); 3 seasons of 72 Hours: True Crime, a doc drama series for CBC and TLC, his second foray into the crime genre after five seasons as Co-Producer, Co-Creator and Director of the groundbreaking, multi-Gemini award-winning series, Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science. Lang was the Executive Producer and one of the directors of the acclaimed four-part television series The Sacred Balance with David Suzuki for CBC and PBS, based on the best-selling book by renowned geneticist and environmentalist, Dr. David Suzuki. He has also produced and directed over 30 one-off documentaries that have won many awards worldwide. He is currently Producer of the feature documentary, Raw Opium, for TVOntario, ZDF Arte and SBS and Executive Producer of the 6-part TV and interactive series, Museum Discoveries, for History TV. [ Minimize ]

Chris Moore is an executive producer and co-director of The People Speak. His filmography includes the highly successful series of American Pie films, Reindeer Games, Joyride, and the Academy Award–winning Good Will Hunting. He was the co-creator of HBO’s Project Greenlight. In addition, Moore exec...
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Chris Moore is an executive producer and co-director of The People Speak. His filmography includes the highly successful series of American Pie films, Reindeer Games, Joyride, and the Academy Award–winning Good Will Hunting. He was the co-creator of HBO’s Project Greenlight. In addition, Moore executive produced the award-winning documentary Pop and Me. He has just directed his first feature film, Kill Theory and he is currently producing Matt Damon’s new film, The Adjustment Bureau. In 2006, Moore founded, with Katie McGrath and Chris Keyser, First Tuesday Media, to produce progressive media. Moore received a BA in American History from Harvard University. [ Minimize ]

Anthony Arnove is a co–executive producer and co-director of The People Speak. Arnove is editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People’s History of the United States, which has been read in dramatic performances across the country since 2004. A theatrical adaptation of Voices premiered in New York...
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Anthony Arnove is a co–executive producer and co-director of The People Speak. Arnove is editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People’s History of the United States, which has been read in dramatic performances across the country since 2004. A theatrical adaptation of Voices premiered in New York in 2007. He also helped found, with Howard Zinn, the nonprofit Voices of a People’s History of the United States (www.peopleshistory.us). Arnove received a BA in English and Religion from Oberlin College and MA and PhD from Brown University in English with a concentration in Modern Culture and Media. [ Minimize ]

Executive Director of the archive Trade Association ACSIL since 2003, Jill Hawkins has been an industry expert in the stock footage field for many years. She pioneered and headed up BBC Library Sales (now BBC Motion Gallery) taking it from a small UK based sales operation to become an international ...
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Executive Director of the archive Trade Association ACSIL since 2003, Jill Hawkins has been an industry expert in the stock footage field for many years. She pioneered and headed up BBC Library Sales (now BBC Motion Gallery) taking it from a small UK based sales operation to become an international leader in stock footage.
After joining the BBC Film Library she moved to Library Sales a division of BBC Enterprises, now Worldwide, and then Head of Business Development helping to establish a nascent BBC Films. Later she headed up Marketing and Rights and Clearances for programming organizing the departments to maximize the long term catalog value of the BBC’s archives and developing investment led marketing strategies for new programming. She became Head of Business Affairs and then Television Sales Director, responsible for the worldwide portfolio of BBC’s commercial programming in the international market before being deployed to the US where she now lives.

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Louise is a documentary specialist with over 25 years experience in international film and television. She has set up co-productions and pre-sales on a wide variety of projects, including Oscar, Emmy, Sundance, Prix Italia and International Emmy winners. Current films include Kimberly Reed’s PRODIGA...
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Louise is a documentary specialist with over 25 years experience in international film and television. She has set up co-productions and pre-sales on a wide variety of projects, including Oscar, Emmy, Sundance, Prix Italia and International Emmy winners. Current films include Kimberly Reed’s PRODIGAL SONS (a CBC/Canada, BBC “Storyville” and Sundance Channel co-production), Paul Devlin’s BLAST! (a BBC “Storyville”, YLE/Finland, Discovery Canada, SVT/Sweden co-production) and JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON (a ZDF-ARTE, DR/Denmark, SBS/Australia, SF/Switzerland, NPS/Netherlands, YLE/Finland, SVT/Sweden, WDR/Germany, APT/US and RAVE HD/US co-production). Louise was co-producer on these titles as well as several others including CITIES OF LIGHT: THE RISE AND FALL OF ISLAMIC SPAIN and THE ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON’S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Louise is a Masterclass Lecturer and Tutor each year at Discovery Campus Masterschool and has been a featured speaker and moderator at many conferences and festivals, including the Real Screen Summit and Hot Docs Toronto Doc Forum. [ Minimize ]

Filmmaker/author Andrea Weiss is co-director of Escape To Life, a feature documentary that premiered in the Berlin Film Festival followed by a European theatrical and television release. Additional credits include Paris Was A Woman, Before Stonewall (for which she won an Emmy Award) International S...
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Filmmaker/author Andrea Weiss is co-director of Escape To Life, a feature documentary that premiered in the Berlin Film Festival followed by a European theatrical and television release. Additional credits include Paris Was A Woman, Before Stonewall (for which she won an Emmy Award) International Sweethearts Of Rhythm, and Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin’ Women. Her company, Jezebel Productions, was recently honored with retrospective screenings in Hamburg, Vienna and Zurich. Andrea has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts. Her books include Paris Was A Woman (Harper Collins), Vampires And Violets: Lesbians in Film (Penguin), and In The Shadow Of The Magic Mountain (University of Chicago Press). They have been translated into French, German, Korean, Swedish, Japanese, and Croatian. She holds a Ph.D. in History and is Professor of Film at the City College of New York. [ Minimize ]

Ron Goetz began his career in television over 30 years ago, starting as Production Supervisor for CFTK-TV in Terrace, British Columbia. During the mid 1980s, Goetz was Senior Producer for CKCK-TV in Regina, Saskatchewan, and was a member of the executive staff for eight years as Director of Creative...
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Ron Goetz began his career in television over 30 years ago, starting as Production Supervisor for CFTK-TV in Terrace, British Columbia. During the mid 1980s, Goetz was Senior Producer for CKCK-TV in Regina, Saskatchewan, and was a member of the executive staff for eight years as Director of Creative Services, Promotions and Community Affairs. For the past fifteen years, Goetz has produced and executive produced factual television programming. Goetz was the Producer of Emmy® Award-winning 13 Seconds: The Kent State Shootings (1x 60 documentary, TLC, History Television) and Executive Producer of multi award-winning documentary, Dad (1 x 60 documentary, HBO, Vision, CBC, SCN). His recent work includes Legend Hunters (8 x 60 documentary series, CTV Travel, Travel Channel USA, ZDF, Discovery Canada, History UK), Trading Places (23 x 60 lifestyle/reality series, Life Network), Vietnam: Canada’s Unknown War (1 x 60 and 1 x 90 documentary, TLC, Wisdom Channel, Discovery Latin America) and Disasters of the Century (47 x 60 documentary series, History Television, Zone Vision, HBO Europe). Currently, Goetz is the Executive Producer for award-winning Crime Stories (48 x 60 documentary series, History Television, A & E Biography, Canal D, History UK, Discovery International) and The Re-Inventors (35 x 30 documentary series (HD), History Television, Historia, Discovery HD International, Treasure HD). Goetz was one of the founders of the MIP-COM National Fellowship that sends Canadian producers to Cannes, France every year. Elected in 1990, Goetz served on the Board of Directors for the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association, and as President for two years. In 2005, Goetz was the Executive Producer for the Saskatchewan Centennial Gala, seen live on CBC and attended by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Goetz was presented with the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, Lynda Haverstock. Goetz graduated from the Advanced Management Centre at the University of Dalhousie with a certificate in Business Management. He also graduated from the Newport Business Management course. Goetz is the Executive Vice President of the Partners in Motion Group of Companies. [ Minimize ]

Sabrina Toledo serves as CABLEready’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Specializing in international sales for CABLEready, she is mainly responsible for Asia, Pacific Rim, Latin America, Spain, Canada and the Middle East and frequently travels those regions and countries.

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Sabrina Toledo serves as CABLEready’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Specializing in international sales for CABLEready, she is mainly responsible for Asia, Pacific Rim, Latin America, Spain, Canada and the Middle East and frequently travels those regions and countries.

During the middle of 2009, the company has added several key territories to Ms. Toledo’s existing sales responsibilities including Scandinavia, Asia and the Pacific Rim as well as Western Europe. At the time CABLEready President and CEO Gary Lico remarked, “I’m very pleased to be putting more of Europe under Sabrina’s watch. She has been a major contributor to our ongoing success in several key parts of the globe.”

Ms. Toledo also manages the creation of sales and marketing materials, handles ratings research for the company, participates in original program development and oversees all public relations/publicity efforts.

Prior to joining the company, Ms. Toledo served as a teaching assistant at Syracuse University while she completed her Master of Science degree in Media Management. Prior to that, she worked as a marketing intern in the CBS News New Media department. A graduate of New York University, Sabrina holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Journalism. Her other past experience also includes work as a literacy tutor with America Reads. Sabrina is fluent in Spanish and French.

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Mr. Starowicz began his career in newspaper journalism and joined the current affairs division of CBC Radio in 1970. Acclaimed for his reworking of As It Happens, he also created Sunday Morning, a three-hour weekend review. In 1979 he shifted to CBC Television, where he was the architect and Executi...
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Mr. Starowicz began his career in newspaper journalism and joined the current affairs division of CBC Radio in 1970. Acclaimed for his reworking of As It Happens, he also created Sunday Morning, a three-hour weekend review. In 1979 he shifted to CBC Television, where he was the architect and Executive Producer of the hugely successful current affairs program The Journal (1982-92). Mr. Starowicz's passion for Canadian history and culture culminated in his monumental 32 hour documentary series, Canada: A People's History. Airing over two years (2000-01) in both English and French, the series attracted over 14 million viewers. Awards and honours include Governor General's Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement (2006); Officer of the Order of Canada (2004); Canadian Club Canadian of the Year (2000); Canadian Journalism Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award (2000); eight Gemini Awards, and honorary degrees from six Canadian universities. He is much in demand internationally as a writer and lecturer on the history and future of broadcast communications. [ Minimize ]

André Schäfer, Education: 1987-1992 Degree in History and Journalism at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; 1987-1993 Studies at the German School of Journalism, Munich; freelance journalist for Die Zeit, Frankfurter Rundschau, Kölner Stadtanzeiger and taz; since 1992 freelance director for ...
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André Schäfer, Education: 1987-1992 Degree in History and Journalism at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; 1987-1993 Studies at the German School of Journalism, Munich; freelance journalist for Die Zeit, Frankfurter Rundschau, Kölner Stadtanzeiger and taz; since 1992 freelance director for WDR, ARD, stern TV, 3sat, ZDF and ARTE; April 1999 until May 2002 Editor and Journalist of the “Kultur aktuell“-series (“Culture Today“) of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne; since 2002 partner of FLORIANFILM GmbH, Cologne. Author and director of numerous documentaries, many of them international co-productions, for public channels such as WDR, SWR, ARD and ARTE as well as for cinema. Lives in Cologne. [ Minimize ]

As Vice President, Marketing & Products, Dan is responsible for the company’s marketing initiatives and product strategy. This includes online marketing, PR, social media, and overall company positioning, as well as developing new product offerings and revenues in alignment with the company’s commer...
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As Vice President, Marketing & Products, Dan is responsible for the company’s marketing initiatives and product strategy. This includes online marketing, PR, social media, and overall company positioning, as well as developing new product offerings and revenues in alignment with the company’s commercialization, technology and sales activities.
Most recently, Dan was Managing Director of the New York office for Red Bricks Media, a leading interactive agency specializing in Search & Performance Marketing. Prior to that, he was at Sony Music Entertainment as Vice President, Online Media Network, responsible for products and monetization across the company’s hundreds of artist and label sites. There he launched a range of new offerings for content delivery, sponsorship integration, and community tools, including the industry-leading Musicbox (now MyPlay) broadband video network. Dan has also held product and marketing roles at Idealab, and Priceline.com. Prior to business school, Dan worked in Management Consulting and Strategic Planning. Dan holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard University.


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Since June 2003, Vaudeville has served as the president of Clarke Costelle & Co, the production company he formed with Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle, French film directors and writers. His background is in publishing and radio and television management, and his positions include founder of hi...
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Since June 2003, Vaudeville has served as the president of Clarke Costelle & Co, the production company he formed with Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle, French film directors and writers. His background is in publishing and radio and television management, and his positions include founder of his own publishing house of professional publications, audiovisual manager of the Europe 1 radio station, and Marketing manager at Film Office the Groupe Hachette video company. He is the producer, among other documentaries, of the Second World War series “Apocalypse”, “Lindbergh in colors”, “In love with Adolf Hitler”, “Hunting down the Nazis”, “8 May 1945 The Surrender ”, “On the Alto Runway”, “The Wings of Fame” etc… [ Minimize ]

Alex Sutherland is a freelance consultant and senior executive producer working for a number of independent television companies and broadcasters, including Dragonfly Film and Television and National Geographic Channels. In the past two years she has been the executive producer on a 4-part natural ...
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Alex Sutherland is a freelance consultant and senior executive producer working for a number of independent television companies and broadcasters, including Dragonfly Film and Television and National Geographic Channels. In the past two years she has been the executive producer on a 4-part natural history series Among the Apes, presented by Charlotte Uhlenbroek for FIVE and BBC Worldwide, two series of National Geographic’s Greatest British Machines with Chris Barrie, the BBC1 documentary From Woolies to Wellies: One Woman’s Fight for the High Street, and Channel 4’s factual entertainment series Worlds and Me… presented by Mark Dolan. She has also worked as an executive producer for September Films (Extraordinary People for FIVE), and acted as a consultant for the new owners of Pathe. She worked for six years as a commissioning editor for UK broadcasters Channel 4 and FIVE, commissioning a wide range of popular, successful and award-winning programmes, formats and series. As Controller of History at FIVE, she was responsible for building up the successful and award-winning history strand Revealed, as well as commissioning series such as Disappearing Britain and Big Ideas that Changed the World. [ Minimize ]

Davis, who has been producing award-winning documentaries for more than 18 years, won an Emmy Award for Best Non-Fiction Directing in 2004 for the film Jockey, a feature documentary that followed the harrowing lives of three Kentucky racehorse riders. Now being released theatrically, Davis co-produc...
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Davis, who has been producing award-winning documentaries for more than 18 years, won an Emmy Award for Best Non-Fiction Directing in 2004 for the film Jockey, a feature documentary that followed the harrowing lives of three Kentucky racehorse riders. Now being released theatrically, Davis co-produced Waiting for Armageddon with Heilbroner, which examines how Christian Evangelical apocalyptic thinking focuses on Israel and the potential for war in the Mideast. She also collaborated with Heilbroner on Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling which won the Special Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Florida Film Festival. Their film Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul was part of History Channel’s Emmy Award-winning series Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America. Davis, a graduate of Harvard University, also produced and directed Southern Comfort, which tells the story of a dying transsexual who finds love during the last year of his life. The Emmy-nominated film won more than 25 international awards, including the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature at the Sundance Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature at the Florida Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival. Other awards included First Prize at the Seattle Film Festival, the Grierson Award for Best International Documentary, and the Special Audience Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Davis’ award-winning documentary Girltalk, about the lives of three teenage runaway girls from Boston, was released theatrically and broadcast worldwide. She has produced and edited films including A World Alive, winner of the Golden Eagle Award for Editing, and worked as an editor on documentaries including Jennie Livingston’s Paris is Burning, Ross McElwee’s Sherman’s March and Robert Stone’s American Babylon. [ Minimize ]

Bill Nemtin began his career at the National Film Board of Canada over 40 years ago. He was one of the original team in the NFB’s Challenge For Change Program and worked on the groundbreaking Fogo Island project. He was Executive Producer for the Award Winning International co-productions, Canada:...
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Bill Nemtin began his career at the National Film Board of Canada over 40 years ago. He was one of the original team in the NFB’s Challenge For Change Program and worked on the groundbreaking Fogo Island project. He was Executive Producer for the Award Winning International co-productions, Canada: True North, Hand of Stalin, and a Special for PBS and UK’s Channel4, Maya Angelou: Rainbow in the Clouds . Within the US Public Television, Bill specialized in the setting up of foreign co-productions and acquisitions, first from Canada, and subsequently from London, UK, where he headed the operations of Lark International, a consortium of PBS stations. Lark's copros included the History of Magic, Viking Saga, Space Station, and America at War in Color. The record breaking hit Riverdance, as well as Cirque de Soleil’s Allegro, and Dennis Potter’s last drama series, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus were made available to US Public Television through Lark International. Mr. Nemtin also set up and co-organized the annual UK Immersion Seminars for Canadian Producers for the Canadian High Commission and Telefilm Canada. He began acting as Special Advisor to the Film Commissioner of the NFB on the setting up of International Broadcaster agreements and subsequently represented the NFB in co-production and presale activity in the UK. In 2005 he returned to producing feature documentaries with Diameter of the Bomb. He served as Executive Producer of Passage, which won best documentary awards from the CFTPA and the Atlantic Film Festival. [ Minimize ]

David Heilbroner, Harvard University (B.A. cum laude, 1979), Northeastern Law School (J.D. 1984), has been writing books and producing award-winning documentary films for more than twenty years. For HBO, he directed/produced the Emmy-winning JOCKEY (2004), PLASTIC DISASTERS (2006), THE ADOLESCE...
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David Heilbroner, Harvard University (B.A. cum laude, 1979), Northeastern Law School (J.D. 1984), has been writing books and producing award-winning documentary films for more than twenty years. For HBO, he directed/produced the Emmy-winning JOCKEY (2004), PLASTIC DISASTERS (2006), THE ADOLESCENT ADDICT (2007), and DIAGNOSIS: BIPOLAR (2008). For the History Channel wrote, co-directed and produced SCOPES: BATTLE OVER AMERICA'S SOUL (2006) for the Emmy-winning series "Ten Days that Unexpectedly Changed America." For A & E Television Networks, he wrote, directed and produced many episodes of the Emmy-winning series Investigative Reports. Titles include "Untying the Straitjacket," "Anti-Gay Hate Crimes," and "The Dark Side of Parole." David worked as Senior Producer on CRIME STORIES, a series for Court TV, as well as on AMERICAN BABYLON (2003) a feature Court TV documentary which profiled the life of an African-American vice cop in Atlantic City, New Jersey. As an independent filmmaker, he co-directed and produced the feature documentary PUCKER UP: THE FINE ART OF WHISTLING (2005) which won both the Audience Award and Award for Documentary Excellence at the Florida Film Festival, and played on television stations worldwide. He has just released WAITING FOR ARMAGEDDON (2009), a feature documentary exploring the dangerous influence of Christian Evangelical "end times" theology on US foreign policy. The film played as closing night in the New York Jewish Film Festival and will be released theatrically in the United States. A former prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, and Federal District Court law clerk, David wrote the critically acclaimed non-fiction books Rough Justice (Pantheon 1990) and Death Benefit (Crown/Harmony 1993). David has also written numerous feature articles for magazines including the New York Times Magazine, Playboy and Cosmopolitan. [ Minimize ]

Michael E. Katz is Vice President, Programming and Production, International Division, A&E Television Networks. In his present role, Mr. Katz leads the international programming and production activities for A&E Television Networks, including working with worldwide partners to provide creative direc...
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Michael E. Katz is Vice President, Programming and Production, International Division, A&E Television Networks. In his present role, Mr. Katz leads the international programming and production activities for A&E Television Networks, including working with worldwide partners to provide creative direction for both existing and new channels. In addition, he oversees the company's international program sales efforts. Previously, Mr. Katz was Vice President, Daytime and Specials Programming, A&E Network, where he oversaw late night and daytime programming, and was responsible for the acquisition, development and scheduling of the network's special event programming with a concentration on world premiere documentary mini-series. Before joining A&E in 1989, A&E, Mr. Katz was Executive Producer of WABC-TV. He was responsible for The Morning Show's entry into national syndication as Live With Regis And Kathie Lee and received an Emmy for the local show in 1983 and an Emmy nomination for the national show in 1989. [ Minimize ]