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DAEDALUS PRODUCTIONS, INC., is a not-for-profit film and television production company established in 1980 by NINA ROSENBLUM and DANIEL V. ALLENTUCK to produce non-fiction television for network, public and cable markets as well as theatrical feature documentaries and dramatic films. Specializing in international co-production, Daedalus has won numerous awards and is a highly respected member of the worldwide non-fiction community.

Nina Rosenblum in collaboration with her esteemed board of advisors (Ed Asner, actor; Maureen Stapleton, actor), are involved with all aspects of production from script to completed film. Daedalus Productions works with the finest talents in the entertainment world to create non-fiction television that utilizes the best of contemporary scholarship and professional expertise to push the boundaries of the medium, widen its audience, educate and inform.

PRODUCTIONS producer/director

2002 CODE YELLOW: HOSPITAL AT GROUND ZERO
Daedalus Productions, Inc.
Producer/director of a feature documentary narrated by BRIAN DENNEHY about the hospital closest to ground zero on 9/11.
  2001   UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Daedalus Productions, Inc.
Producer/director of a short advocating reform of the Rockefeller Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws.
  2000   THE SKIN I'M IN
NY Times Television/Showtime
Producer/director of a feature documentary about Jimi Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone.
  1999   TWIN LENSES
Daedalus Productions, Inc.
Producer/director of a feature documentary about the renowned twins, photographers Frances McLaughlin Gill and Kathryn Abbe, famed fashion photographers for Vogue and other major publications.
  1999   WALTER ROSENBLUM: IN SEARCH OF PITT STREET
Daedalus Productions, Inc., New Video
Producer/director of an hour-long documentary about the renowned photographer Walter Rosenblum, whose photographs of D-Day, Pitt Street, Spanish Refugees, East Harlem, Haiti, Europe and the South Bronx are a recognized part of our national heritage.
  1996   A HISTORY OF WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
NYPL, Akron Art Museum, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Wash. DC, Santa Barbara Museum
Producer/directory, narrated by MAUREEN STAPLETON. fifteen minute historical short, with dramatizations for installation in four venues - traveling museum exhibition: A HISTORY OF WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS 1839-1974, curated by Naomi Rosenblum.
  1995   SLAVESHIP: THE TESTIMONY OF THE HENRIETTA MARIE
Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, Daedalus Productions, Inc.
Producer/director of a short for installation in a traveling exhibition: THE WRECK OF THE HENRIETTA MARIE, about the oldest slave ship wreck (1699) found off the coast of the U.S. featuring Dr. Cornel West, Harvard University.
  1994   LOCK-UP: THE PRISONERS OF RIKERS ISLAND
HBO
created by/producer/director
"America Undercover" feature documentary
premiere broadcast: June 6, 1994. World festival premiere: Berlin Film Festival, 1995; Film Festival d'Amiens, France: Grand Prix du Documentaire, Catholic Jury Award, Nov. 1995.
  1994   BEAT DOWN: THE CASE OF RAYMOND ALVAREZ
Daedalus Productions, Inc.
Producer/director of a ten minute short, documenting a brutality case at Rikers Island jail. World festival premiere: Berlin Film Festival, 1995.
  1993   THE UNTOLD WEST: THE BLACK WEST
TBS
narrated by DANNY GLOVER
producer/director of part two of a three-part series, telling the unknown story of African-American cowboys, rodeo riders and Hollywood's Black Westerns.
Emmy Award: Individual Achievement in a Prime Time Documentary
Special: Writer - Dennis Watlington, (co- producer/writer/actor).
Special Jury Prize, Vallodolid Festival, Spain, 1994.
Nominations: CableAce and Vision Award.
  1992   LIBERATORS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN WORLD WAR II
PBS, WDR/Germany, La Sept/FR., Ch. Four/U.K., SBS/AUS
narrated by DENZEL WASHINGTON and LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.
producer/director with William Miles of a feature documentary, about African-American soldiers in WW II who fought in the segregated US army and helped liberate Nazi concentration camps.
Nominated for an Academy Award, 1992
IDA Award
CINE Golden Eagle
CICAE Award
Holocaust Humanitarian Award
Links Award
World Festival Premiere: Berlin Film Festival, 1992
  1989   THROUGH THE WIRE POV- PBS;
Ch. Four, U.K.
producer/director/co-writer
narrated by SUSAN SARANDON, music by Nona Hendryx
World TV premiere - Channel Four, Britain. A feature documentary, for theatrical and public television release, produced in association with Amnesty International.
Completion Grant: L.A. Women in Film, World Festival Premiere: Berlin Film Festival, 1992, Munich Doc. Festival: Best in Festival, INPUT
  1980-84
AMERICA AND LEWIS HINE
NEH, PBS
producer/director
narrated by JASON ROBARDS & MAUREEN STAPLETON
Broadcast: National PBS: November 8, 1984
An hour long documentary, about pioneer social photographer Lewis Hine World festival premiere: New York Film Festival 1984
Sundance Film Festival: Special Jury Prize
Clarion Award
IDA Award
Cine Golden Eagle
Chris Statuette.