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Max Lewkowicz, writer, producer, director
Max Lewkowicz has written, directed, and produced hundreds of productions for network and public television, museums, and multinational corporations in a career that has spanned over twenty-five years.
Since 1981, Max has worked with major international production groups in Montreal, London, and New York. His global experience coupled with the ability to speak five languages, has enabled him to produce extensively for an international market.
Max's documentary works include award-winning films about the mercury pollution afflicting Native American tribes in Northern Canada, the Dance Theater of Harlem, the generational cycles of poverty in America’s inner cities, Nelson Mandela’s struggle against Apartheid in South Africa, Across the Bridge, an American Military Doctrine in Germany during the Cold War and Ours to Fight For, the stories of American GIs in World War II.
In addition, Max has written, produced and directed museum exhibition films and interactive presentations domestically and internationally. His works in this area include the media for the core exhibits of The Museum of Jewish Heritage/A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Battery Park City, New York; The South African Heritage Museum in Cape Town; and the Montreal Memorial Holocaust Center.
Max's writing and directorial expertise has won critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Silver Screen Award at the US Film and Video Festival, the grand prize of The Chicago International Film Festival, The International Film and TV Festival of New York, and the 2003 Award of Excellence from the National Association of Museum Exhibitions.
Max is a graduate of McGill University and has a Masters Degree in Communication from New York University.
Scott Shelley, director of photography
Scott is a cinematographer and producer with 19 years of experience in documentary, television and independent feature films. Scott received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts and has two nominations and one National Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Cinematography.
Scott started as an editor and later producer for the UN Center Against Apartheid, UNTV and Unicef producing stories for CNN, and full-length documentaries distributed worldwide. Other documentaries he has shot include Primal Contact for A&E, Song of the Refugee for PBS and David Novack’s American Coal [soon to be released]. He has worked in over 60 countries, often in remote areas under difficult circumstances.
His television career includes 8 seasons as a principle cinematographer for Jerry Bruckheimer’s The Amazing Race. Scott was also the Director of Photography for two television series produced by Phil Keoghan: Adventure Crazy and No Opportunity Wasted. NOW is a 13-hour series shot in HD for The Discovery Channel, and won the Hor Concours at the Banff Television Festival in 2005.
Scott has shot three independent features including a current project that he is also producing. Recent work includes an international ad campaign featuring Ralph Fiennes, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lang, Whoopi Goldberg and others.
Joseph Borruso, senior editor
Joseph Borruso has edited and/or post supervised numerous documentaries for HBO and PBS including, Slumming It: Myth and Culture on the Bowery, Kindergarten, 27th & Prospect and The Telephone. He has also edited TV and radio spots for Public Television’s Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! series. Along with his broadcast work Mr. Borruso has edited films and videos for museums and the private sector, including The Decatur House Museum, The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, The Maltz Museum and The Jamestown Museum. His editing also encompasses short narrative films including Someone to Love, winner of the Audience Choice Award for Best Independent Drama at the DaVinci Film and Video Festival.
Mr. Borruso is a graduate of New York University, Tisch School of The Arts, where he majored in film and television and minored in history. He currently resides in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
Michael Bacon, composer
Michael Bacon's recent projects include the original score for "African American Lives", by Kuhnhart Productions, Desination America, by David Grubin, "Berga: Soldiers of Another War", by Charles Guggenheim, the features "Loverboy" and "Red Betsy", (with Sheldon Mirowitz), "King Gimp" the Academy Award Winner in the Short Documentary category, "RFK" and "Secret Life of the Brain", by David Grubin, (current Emmy winner) the critically acclaimed five hour documentary on PBS. Bacon was nominated for an Emmy for his score for the David Grubin’s PBS documentary "Young Dr. Freud". "Ernest Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance" an Emmy winner recently aired on PBS. "The Hampton’s" a four hour show directed by Barbara Kopple was broadcast in June on ABC. The four-hour Emmy Award winning documentary "Truman" was shown on PBS. Others include "TR","Reagan","America1900", "The Wright Stuff", "Carnegie" and "MacArthur." Peter Jennings' series "The Century", 26 hours for ABC was broadcast in 1999. "Abraham and Mary Lincoln was broadcast in 2000 as well as numerous other shows on all major networks. The feature film "Losing Chase" premiered at Sundance and won 2 Golden Globe Awards.
Bacon won an Emmy for his score for "The Kennedy's", an Ace Award nomination for his score "The Man Who Loved Sharks", The BMI Television Music Award and The Chicago International Film Festival Gold Plaque Award for music in "LBJ". Shows he has scored have won numerous Emmy Awards and three Academy Awards ("The Johnstown Flood", "A Time For Justice", and King Gimp). Jerry Lee Lewis, Carlene Carter, Peter Yarrow and Claude Francois are just a few of the artists that have recorded songs written by Bacon. He and his brother, Kevin, perform music live as "The Bacon Brothers." They have appeared on The Tonight Show, Rosie O'Donnell, The Early Show, The View, Vibe, Prime Time Country, Conan O'Brian, Donny and Marie, The Howard Stern Show, Bravo on Broadway and The Today Show. Their live DVD was released in the fall of 2004 and 5th CD in 2005. Bacon has a degree in music from Lehman College where he studied composition and orchestration with John Corigliano. He lives in New York City with his wife, Betsy, and son, Neil, and enjoys playing squash and ice hockey.
Adam Schein, line producer
Adam Schein graduated from Dartmouth College, where he majored in psychology and also developed an interest in film. He has worked as line producer and in other capacities on projects for the Jamestown Settlement, the United States Naval Academy Hall of Fame, the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Interpretive Center, and the Historical Society of Palm Beach County.
Shelby Frantz, post-production coordinator, archivist
Assistant editor, researcher and all around ‘staff sergeant,’ Shelby Frantz has worked in television and film since graduating from Oberlin College with majors in Theater and Politics. Her far-flung interests led her to assist in the editing or post-production of numerous cable reality series, including MTV’s True Life, IFC’s Film School, and The Next Food Network Star. She has also worked on several feature-length documentaries, such as A Stadium Story, selected to the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, and Bling, which aired as part of VH1’s Rock Doc series.
A native of Kansas City, Kansas, Shelby now lives in Manhattan.
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