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Eric Neudel
Producer, Director, Editor
PBS credits:
l 1991 "After The Crash" for The American Experience
Producer, Cine Golden Eagle
l 1990 Eyes On The Prize
Producer, multiple EMMY's
l 1989 The Philippines and The US: In Our Image
Producer/editor
Stanley Karnow’s companion book won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize
l 1985 "AIDS: Chapter One" for NOVA
Editor, EMMY
1970 — 1980 edited fourteen NOVA programs
l 1984 Vietnam: A Television History
Editor, two EMMY's
l 1978 "Cha Chaji: My Poor Relation" for World
Editor, Columbia Dupont Award
Independent films and videos:
l "Steps" (1980) 16mm film about the lifelong relationship of two young women one of whom was paralyzed in an auto accident when she was seventeen.
w Critically acclaimed by all three major Boston newspapers.
w Boston Globe rated “Steps” one of the ten best films of the year calling it “…an overpowering emotional experience.”
w Featured film of the 1980 Boston Independent Film Festival
w In recognition of “Steps” Yale University awarded Eric Neudel the Shenkin Fellowship in Filmmaking in 1993.
l "Fred's Story," (1994) Hi8 documentary of the indomitable Alfredo Calabrese whose spirit survived 33 years of punishing confinement in one of Connecticut’s largest institutions for the mentally retarded.
w 1996 Silver Hugo Award, Chicago International Film Festival
w 1996 Golden Chris, Columbus International Film Festival
w 1997 Gold WorldMedal The New York Film Festivals
w 1997Communicator's Crystal Award of Excellence
w 1997 George Stoney Advocacy Documentary Video Award
w 1997 Gold Telly Award
l "Marie" (1995 on Hi8), is an intimate portrait of a close friend, Marie Felton, a renowned Boston doctor and advocate for the severely disabled who revolutionized the field of home treatment for patients. Dr. Felton died from a brain tumor in 1994.
Current Independent Projects:
l “Fred’s Roman Holiday” (shot on mini-DV and regular 8) sequel to “Fred’s Story”
w video distribution allowed Eric Neudel and co-producer, Gayle Kranz, to take Fred to Rome in 1999 (near completion)
l “The Magic Stick,” a feature length mini-DV documentary
w two interweaving narratives in chronological order
w First story contemporary cinema verité footage of Americans who establish two prosthetic clinics on either side of a former war zone between Nicaragua and Honduras
w Second story uses stock footage and
contemporary interviews to trace the 150-year history of the United States’
involvement in Nicaragua
l “Spirits of the Fire” (mini-DV)
w A video team’s journey to a remote site in Guatemala
w An encounter with Maya Elders who have kept documents (some more than 2000 years old) of their once formidable city-states hidden from European and mestizo eyes
w Guides, Mercedes Barrios Longfellow, Maya priestess, and Gerardo Barrios, Keeper of the Maya calendar
Biographic Notes:
l 1992 — taught at Yale University as Visiting Senior Critic and Lecturer in film.
l 1996 — 1998 Producer, director and writer; Chedd-Angier Production Company;
200 videos for a national science museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
l 1998 — 1999 Series producer, “Body and Soul,” a PBS magazine series about complementary medicine; also independently produced two multimedia exhibits for 'Science City,' a museum in Kansas City's historic Central Station.
l 1999 — 2005 Producer, director and editor for Harvard University’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and Spectrum Media’s program series on the art and craft of teaching.
l 2005 — 2006 Video production consultant teaching video production to a team working for the Compass Project in Malawi. He has designed and produced two seven-hour instructional video series on honey production and fish farming. Both series will be distributed on DVD and are part of a comprehensive course complete with handbooks, trainer’s guides and business plans (which he also helped to write). The course is aimed at providing long-term solutions to poverty and environmental degradation to Malawian villagers interested in starting sustainable small-scale commercial enterprises.
l 2007 — Producer, videographer and editor of “Interactive Teaching: Promoting Better Learning Using Peer Instruction and Just–in-Time Teaching” a DVD featuring Harvard Physics professor Eric Mazur. The DVD won the:
l 2007 — Consulting Editor (2005 2007), story consultant for “Row Hard No Excuses,” a feature length documentary about two middle-aged American men who set out to win the "world's toughest race" — three thousand miles across the Atlantic in a rowboat.
AWARDS 2007:
For more information: http://www.lanternfilms.com/