Peggy Stern

Peggy Stern

President, Producer, Director
Gladeyes films
Full Bio
Harvard graduate and award-winning independent producer and director Peggy Stern has been making films focused on personal, cultural, and social issues for more than 30 years.Peggy Stern is Founder, and CEO of Dyslexiaville, the first media company for kids with dyslexia and other learning differences. as well as running Gladeyes films. In March 2006 Stern won the Oscar for Best Animated Short. Stern has produced for PBS, HBO, Teachers College at Columbia University, The National PTA, and National YWCA among others. In her role as Dyslexiaville's founder, Stern engages with children, parents & teachers and speaks at conferences across the country. She shares her experiences growing up with dyslexia and her vision to change the future for the next generation of children with learning differences through helping them become their own storytellers. She received her BA from Harvard University and her senior thesis film STEPHANIE, was turned into a PBS documentary Special and broadcast nationally. Besides producing an ongoing series for children with Learning Differences, The super d Show, Stern is also currently Producing and Directing a feature Length Documentary, Quality of Life: Palliative Care and the future of Medicine which is now in post-production.
Professional Credits
Peggy Stern
Filmography Producer/Director/Writer

2014 to present Quality of Life, Palliative Care and the Future of Medicine, producer, director A feature-length documentary film in production.

2016 DYSLEXIAVILLE producer, director. Super D Show, a web series on Youtube for and by 8 to 12 year old children with learning differences.

2008 CHUCK JONES MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD, producer, director, a documentary with animation Broadcast on Turner Classic Movies

2006 THE MOON AND THE SON AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION producer, cowriter. Winner Best Animated Short 2006 Academy Awards. Premiered on Cinemax

2006 STEPHANIE SEQUEL producer, director. A Feature length documentary to be filmed over the next 30 years. Once a high school drop-out the film follows her through adulthood.

2003 STANDING TALL, producer, director a documentary about drama therapist Dr. Robert Landy, as he works with 4th-5th graders at PS 3 after the students and teacher witnessed the second plane crash into the World Trade Center. Winner of a Cine Golden Eagle

1996 THE GALAXY CLASSROOM Documentaries, in conjunction with WGBH, producer, director. A series of three documentaries about the Galaxy Classroom

1993 JIM DINE CHILDHOOD STORIES, producer, director
Winner of an honorable mention at the Nyon Film Festival, winner of a Cine Golden Eagle and Finalist at the American Film & Video Festival.

1992 BALI BEYOND THE POST CARD producer, co-director
A documentary Winner, National Geographic Earthwatch Film Award. Screened at Margaret Mead, Hawaii International Film Festival, Grand Prix du Video Danse, and Bombay International Film Festival

1990 UNEQUAL EDUCATION Failing our Children , Consulting Producer with Bill Moyers.
A documentary made by the Educational Video Center , Broadcast nationally on PBS.

1989 DEBUT, producer, director
A documentary exploring the realities of life as a classical musician Broadcast nationally on PBS in October 1990 Winner of the Golden Hugo, Chicago Film Festival




1987 STEPHANIE, producer, director,
A documentary that examines the crisis in American high schools through the eyes of one teenager. Broadcast nationally on PBS, and U.K, Channel Four. Winner Best Documentary, Athens International Film Festival, Merit Award at Global Village Film Festival, Finalist at the American Film Festival, and Merit Award at the Black Maria Film Festiva. Distributed by Women Make Movies

1985 STUBBORN HOPE, producer, director,
A documentary about South African poet and activist, Dennis Brutus. Screened at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the London Film Festival, Filmex, Global Village, the Museum of Modern Art, and Cinema Du Reel. Distributed by Icarus Films.

1983 SILVER VALLEY, producer, director,
A documentary on the closing of a silver mine Broadcast on PBS, the Learning Channel Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cinema du Reel, and Merit Award at the Athens International Film Festival.

1980 Producer, Director, on staff at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation. Harare, Zimbabwe. YOUTH FORUM NYAFARU Place of Happiness, PORTRAITS OF TEN POETS

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1988 Adjunct Professor New York University Tisch School of the Arts,
1985 present Guest Lecturer: selected list
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
Harvard University: Dept. of Visual and Environmental Studies.
Columbia University, Graduate School of Education
Brown University, Graduate School of Education, Dyslexic Advantage, Chapman University
Johnson Foundation, Wingspread Conference
Affiliations
1992, 1993 Secretary on the Board of Directors, Women Make Movies
Industry Awards
Academy Award for Best Short Animated Film, 2006,
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