Jane Weiner Author, Director, Producer, Educator

In addition to her work as a documentary filmmaker and international co-producer, in 1973, Jane Weiner began teaching with the Center for Understanding Media in New York City in the Artist-in-the-School program under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  Over several years, she worked with elementary and high school teachers to integrate film, video and photography into the curriculum at schools in South Carolina, Connecticut, and the Virgin Islands.  She used this same approach teaching with the Communications Experience in intercity schools in Philadelphia in 1974.  From 1976-1989, as a member-of-the-faculty at the Graduate Media Studies Program at the New School in New York she taught courses on international television and documentary writing.  During 2002-2004, Weiner taught documentary writing, beginning production, and international television at the Newhouse School for Communications at Syracuse University.  Over the years, she has also conducted documentary and writing workshops for broadcast professionals and young directors in Europe, North Africa and Asia.

FILMOGRAPHY

WRITING / DIRECTING:
-On ‘BEING THERE’ with RICHARD LEACOCK (In production) Author, Director
A feature-length documentary on the life work of visionary filmmaker and ‘father of Cinema vérité’
-LE PIÈGE VERT [Dreaming Green] (for 2009) Co-author (with director Sergio Ghizzardi)
An investigation into geo-political and socio-economic consequences of bio-fuels for RTBF-Belgium / ARTE-France
-UN MONDE SANS ABEILLES [A World without Bees] (for 2009) Co-author (with director Mark Daniels)
A one-hour film on the strange disappearance of bees around the world for ARTE / CBC-Canada
-AGENT ORANGE - Une guerre sans fin [War Without End] (2006) Co-author/co-Director (with Leslie Wiener).
A 75-minute film on lawsuit against the corporations that made chemicals used in the Vietnam War
for FRANCE 5 / IKON-Holland / SBS-Australia
-LET OP! ZAKKENROLLERS [Beware of Pickpockets![ (2000) Author-director-producer
60-min documentary essay about pickpockets in Amsterdam for ZDF-ARTE Germany / NCRV-Holland
-DERNIERE NOUVELLE DE... [Latest News From...] (1994-95) Co-creator of the series with Patrice Barrat
13-episodes for current events program TRANSIT on ’hot-spots’ around the world for ARTE-Strasbourg
-LE NUMÉRIQUE [The Digital Revolution] (1998) Author-Director
4x13 (52) minutes, program on the digital revolution for daytime Educational series, Allo la Terre on FRANCE 5.
-L’AGE D’OR DE PETIT PORTRAIT [Golden Age of Miniature Portraits] (Louvre) Author-Director
-LE RÉOUVERTURE [The Re-Opening] (Jacquemart-André) Author-Director
-LA CHÂSSE DE NIVELLES - TRÉSOR GOTHIQUE [Gothic Treasure of Nivelles] (Cluny) Author-Director
for PARIS PREMIÈRE (France) Series Aux arts etcetera – 15-minute reportages on museum openings
-CAROLINE by Giacometti (1995) Director-Co-author.
Documentary short on Giacometti’s mistress-muse. ‘Best of the series’: WHO IS SHE? for European Broadcast Union – EBU Arts Program Exchange / PARIS PREMIÈRE / CPB-PBS
-SEEN ELSEWHERE and YOUNG DIRECTORS (1992) Producer-Directo
Two one-hour programs on international television and the first works by great directors for A & E Revue.
-SELF-EXPOSURE (1990-91) Co-creator of series with Marcia Lerner.
Series of personal documentaries on socio-societal-political subjects for BBC-London
- J F KENNEDY CENTER (Washington DC) Director of 3-hour interviews for the Center’s Achievement Awards archives
-EUGENE ORMANDY (1983) interviewed by Paul Hume
-BENNY GOODMAN (1983) interviewed by David Brinkley
- UNITED NATIONS – FAO, Italy Director-Camera-Editor two for programs widely distributed throughout Latin America
-ALCANCIA FAMILIAR [Family Bank] (1979) 30-minutes
¿ES ESTA PESTE PORCINA AFRICANA? [Is This African Swine Fever?] (1979) 25-minutes

PRODUCING:
-RAVI SHANKAR – Between Two Worlds (2001) Co-Producer and 2nd camera
90-minute portrait by Mark Kidel of the Indian sitar player and composer for ARTE / NHK-Japan / BBC-Wales
FIPA Television festival Palme d’argent & UNESCO Best Film
-WISOR-Robo-welder (2000) Producer
90-minute experimental documentary by Michel Negroponte for ZDF-ARTE
-TOKYO GAME (2000) Executive Producer
30-minute video essay by Véronique Legendre on the metros, trains in Tokyo for ZDF-ARTE
-THE THINGS THAT REMAIN (EL MONTE) (2000) Executive Producer
40-minute video essay by Mark Daniels on the institution of pawnshops in Mexico for ZDF-ARTE
-HOME PAGE (1999) Producer
Feature-length documentary about adventures in cyberspace by Doug Block for HBO / ZDF-ARTE
-TRANCE-ART in MARRAKECH: ZINE and the Gnawas (1999) Co-Producer
50-minute art documentary in HDTV by Véronique Legendre for NHK-Japan
-LA DOULEUR [Pain Is. . .] (1998) Producer
80-minute experimental documentary by Stephan Dwoskin for ZDF-ARTE
Grand Prix Vue sur les Docs Festival, Marseilles
-PARIS DESSOUS [Beneath Paris] (1995) Executive Producer
26-minute video essay by Françoise Marie for ZDF-ARTE
-NO ACCIDENT (1995) Producer
26-minute experimental video essay by Michel Negroponte for ZDF-ARTE
- LEE MILLER: Through the Mirror (1995) Associated Producer
55-minute portrait by Sylvain Rommette of photographer and model for La Sept France / YLE Finland
-JUPITER’S WIFE (1994) Co-Producer
Feature-length documentary portrait of homeless woman by Michel Negroponte for HBO / BBC
Sundance Special Jury Prize and Best Documentary EMMY Award, etc.
-SILVERLAKE LIFE-The View from Here (1993) Co-Producer
Feature-length documentary about living with AIDs by Tom Joslin & Peter Friedman for POV / Ch 4-UK / ZDF-ARTE
Sundance Grand Jury Prize; Prix Italia; Peabody Award, etc.
Selection IDFA-Amsterdam : ‘one of the best documentaries of our time.’
-I’M YOUR TYPICAL QUARTER (1988) Producer
A short musical story about money directed by Mark Ritts - Re-broadcast every year for 20 years on SESAME STREET
-SHARKEY’S DAY (1984) Associate producer
Experimental video by Laurie Anderson for PBS / ALIVE-FROM-OFF-CENTER

EDITING

Consulting editor
-ON THE ROAD AGAIN: THE SINGING ANGELS IN CHINA (1984) Consulting editor
Directed by Marcia Rock, a one-hour documentary filmed in China and Japan for ABC (WEWS-Cleveland)
Regional Cultural EMMY Award

Supervising Editor and Production Coordinator(1975-76) NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / UNITED NATIONS, New York and Vancouver on 200+ films shot worldwide for the United Nations HABITAT Conference

Assistant editor 35mm film and assistant editor sound
-DEADLY HERO (1975) PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Ivan Nagy-director; Walter Thompson-Supervising editor; Susan Steinberg-Editor; Ron Kalish-Sound Editor
Actors: James Earl Jones, Lilia Scala, Don Murray and Treat Williams

INDEPENDENT PRODUCTIONS

-ME CAÍ DES MIS ZAPATOS [I Fell Off My Shoes] (1991) Executive producer
By Paolo Fisherman, Javier Niv & Daniel Bohm on Mexican blues singer, Betsy Pecanins

-OPEN ROAD (1991) co-Producer
One-hour music documentary by Phil Fallo on jazz guitarist, Pat Martino
Honorable Mention American Film/Video Association

-FROZEN MOMENT (1990) Producer
10-minute experimental film essay by Brahna Yassky
Honorable Mention Rochester Film Festival

-JACOB RIIS - IMAGES OF THE POOR (1983) Producer and co-writer with Dan Edelman
Documentary with fiction reenactments on Danish-American photographer
National Endowment of Humanities Script Development Grant

-THE ODD WOMEN (1981) co-screenwriter with Lauretta Harris
Screenplay for 13-part dramatic series based on novel by George Gissing

-7th STREET DEPOT (1971) Author-Director-Camera-Editor
an experimental 16mm short on a young girl’s first visit to a big city.

-JOHN JAMES AUDUBON’S BIRDS OF AMERICA (1985)
20-minute documentary on republication of Audubon’s ELEPHANT FOLIOS: Abbeyville Press & Audubon Society

CORPORATE FILMS, VIDEOS AND MULTI-MEDIA, Director-Producer (1975-1999)
for major corporations, including: American Express, Seagram’s, Oldsmobile, CPC International, AT&T, Bell Labs, GTE, Corning International, Price-Waterhouse, Lederle Pharmaceutical, Upjohn, Syntex, Becton-Dickinson, Schering-Plough, Johnson & Johnson, Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Chemical Bank, IBM, etc.

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