Greta Schiller
Adjunct Professor
Dept. of Media and Communication Arts
Shepard Hall 472
The City College of New York
160 Convent Ave.
NY NY 10031

Education:
M.Ed., Science Education, The City College of New York, 2005. B.F.A., Film/Video Production, The City College of New York, 1977 (with honors). Employment History:
Independent documentary filmmaker, 1980-present. Filmography (chronologically):
BONES OF CONTENTION (2017). Executive Producer.
Feature documentary on the historical memory movement in Spain and the repression of the LGBT community under Franco. World Premiere: Berlin Film Festival, February 2017. In distribution with Doc & Films (Paris) and Icarus Films (New York).

THE MARION LAKE STORY: DEFEATING THE MIGHTY PHRAGMITE (2014). Producer/Director. A half hour film following the largest community-led environmental restoration project in New York State. Distributed by New Day Films.

NO DINOSAURS IN HEAVEN (2010). Producer/Director. A visual essay drawing upon my parallel careers as filmmaker/science educator, filmed in the Grand Canyon and NYC public schools. The film explores why science education is crucial to a healthy democracy, and documents the struggle to keep religion out of the science classroom. Distributed by New Day Films.
RECALL FLORIDA (2003). Producer/Director/Cinematographer. Feature length documentary road movie following Janet Reno s campaign for Governor of Florida. New York Premiere: Pioneer Cinema, NYC, 2004. I LIVE AT GROUND ZERO (2002). Producer/Director. Half-hour documentary providing a young girl s eye-view of September 11th. New York. Produced in association with Arte Television, Germany. Broadcast over German and French television.

ESCAPE TO LIFE: THE ERIKA AND KLAUS MANN STORY (2001). Executive Producer. Feature-length documentary/drama, for theatrical release, based on the lives and work of anti-Nazi writers and performers Erika and Klaus Mann, eldest children of Thomas Mann. Produced in association with Arte (German/French television) and YLE TV2 (Finnish television), with funds from the UK Film Council, New York Council for the Humanities, and Hamburg Film Fund. World Premiere: Berlin International Film Festival, February 2001. American Premiere: Museum of Modern Art, NYC, November 2001.
THE MAN WHO DROVE WITH MANDELA (1998). Producer/Director. In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theatre Director was arrested with Nelson Mandela. this is his story. Produced in association with Channel Four (UK), AVRO (Netherlands), SA Broadcasting, VRT-CANVAS (Belgium), Corporation for Public Broadcasting (USA). The London Production Fund, the British Film Institute and South African Department of Arts and Culture. Premiere: Berlin International Film Festival.
SEED OF SARAH (1998). Executive Producer. Half-hour experimental documentary film of a contemporary opera, based on the Hungarian Holocaust memoir Seed of Sarah by Judith Magyar Isaacson. Produced in association with the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and Jerome Foundation. Premiere: Marseilles Documentary Film Festival. PARIS WAS A WOMAN (1995). Producer/Director. Feature-length documentary on the female Modernists in Paris between the Wars. Theatrical release in the U.K., Spain, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Broadcast in Holland, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark. Premiere: London Film Festival.
WOMAN OF THE WOLF (1993). Writer/Producer/Director. A sumptuous fairy tale based on a 1904 story by American poet/author Renee Vivien. Produced in association with ITVS/PBS. Channel Four, UK and La Sept, France with funds from the London Production Fund. Premiere: Berlin International Film Festival. MAXINE SULLIVAN: LOVE TO BE IN LOVE (1991). Producer/Director/Editor. A long-overdue film portrait of the once famous, and now, largely forgotten jazz vocalist Maxine Sullivan. Produced in association with Channel Four, UK and La Sept, France. Premiere: American Film and Video Festival.
TINY & RUBY: HELL DIVIN WOMEN (1988). Producer/Director. Film portrait of two female jazz musicians from the 1930s through the 1970s. a sequel to INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM. Broadcast in the U.K, Germany, Holland, and France. Produced in association with Channel Four, UK. Premiere: Berlin International Film Festival. INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM (1986). Producer/Director. A documentary film of the multi-racial, all-female jazz band of the big band era. Broadcast over national PBS and in Britain, France, Holland, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Zimbabwe. Produced in association with Channel Four, UK, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and New York Council for the Humanities. Premiere: New York Film Festival. BEFORE STONEWALL (1985). Producer/Director. Groundbreaking documentary on American gay and lesbian life in the closet prior to the contemporary gay liberation movement. Theatrical release in the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany, Australia. Broadcast over national PBS and in Britain, Japan, and China. Produced in association with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and New York Council for the Humanities. Premiere: Berlin Int l Film Festival.

Awards and Honors (selected list):
Inducted into Communications Hall of Fame, CCNY Alumni Association, Spring 2018.

Global Fulbright Fellowship (to India, Spain and Australia), 2017-18.

Rachel Carson Fellowship (University of Munich), 2016-17.

Environmentalist of the Year Award, from the North Fork Environmental Council and Suffolk County, New York, 2014.

Townsend Harris Medal for Outstanding Contributions to my Field, the Alumni Association of the City College of New York, 2012.

Man Who Drove with Mandela: Gay Teddy Bear Award for Best Documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival. First Fulbright Arts Award in Film, US/UK, 1988/89.
Paris Was a Woman: Best Documentary (Audience prize), Festival International de Films de Femmes, Paris. Best Documentary (Audience prize), Berlin Film Festival. International Sweethearts of Rhythm: First Prize at Festival de Films de Femmes, Paris. Prize of International Jury, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany. Jury Prize, Leipzig International Documentary Festival, Germany.1986 New York Film Festival, USA. Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival, USA. Silver Award, Philadelphia Film Festival. Selected for Highlights of British Television , BBC.
Before Stonewall: Winner Of two Emmy Awards, for Best Documentary and Best Research, 1987. First Place, National Educational Film Festival USA. Best Film, Houston International Film Festival. Documentary Feature, Los Angeles FILMEX. Honorable Mention, Global Village Documentary Festival. Individual artist grants from New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, London Production Fund. Teaching and Services to the Field

Spring 2011 Present: Producing and Directing the Documentary , Graduate MFA Program in Film at the City College of New York.

Spring 2014: Artist in Residence, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh PA.

2011: Documentary Film Jury, Havana NY Film Festival.
1987- 2001 Taught over 40 documentary film and video production workshops and courses at the National Film and Television School of Great Britain, North Kensington (London) Drama Project, Women Make Movies (New York), Women In Film (NY and Johannesburg), and at multiple venues in Germany and U.S.

1991-1995 British Film Institute, London, Production Funding Panel.

1986-1990 Served on Funding Panels for New York Council for the Humanities, U.S./U.K. Fulbright Arts Fellowship in Film selection panels.