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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
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2002 |
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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. |
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2001 |
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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Daedalus Productions, Inc.
Producer/director of a short advocating reform of the Rockefeller
Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws. |
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2000 |
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THE SKIN I'M
IN
NY Times Television/Showtime
Producer/director of a feature documentary about Jimi Hendrix and
Sly and the Family Stone. |
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1999 |
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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. |
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1999 |
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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. |
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1996 |
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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. |
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1995 |
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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. |
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1994 |
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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. |
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1994 |
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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. |
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1993 |
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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. |
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1992 |
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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 |
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1989 |
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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 |
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1980-84
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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. |
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