Slawomir Grünberg

Sławomir Grünberg

Slawomir Grünberg in Warsaw, 2010
Born Slawomir Grünberg
Lublin, Poland
Awards Emmy Award 2000
Website logtv.com/tv

Sławomir Grünberg (born April 6, 1951) is a Polish-born naturalized American award-winning documentary producer, director and cameraman.

Biography

A graduate of the Polish Film School in Łódź, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1981 and has since directed and produced over 40 documentaries. He is the founder and president of LOGTV, Ltd. Grünberg’s film School Prayer: A Community At War (1999), screened on PBS, received the National Emmy Award. It also won The Jan Karski Award in a competition which recognizes outstanding television documentaries produced on the theme of moral courage. In 2004, Grünberg received the Dream Catcher Award, to recognize his commitment to documentary filmmaking.[1]

Slawomir Grünberg’s independent works focus on critical social, political, environmental issues, with a special interest in Jewish themes and threatened identities, and have won him international recognition. Chelyabinsk: The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet, was awarded the Grand Prix at the International Nature & Environmental Film Festival, in Grenoble, France in 1996.[2] In 1998, another documentary, which deals with environmental issues, From Chechnya to Chernobyl, was awarded a Grand Prix at the International Environmental Film Festival In Prague, Czech Republic and a prestigious Golden Cine Award in the US.[2] "Fenceline: A Company Town Divided" is another environmental documentary film, awarded Best Documentary Feature by Environmental Media Association in 2003.[3][4][5] In 2006, "Saved by Deportation: An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews won Grunberg The Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.[6]

Grünberg’s recent films include: Castaways (co-directed with Tomasz Wiśniewski), Magda(co-directed with Katka Reszke),when?] [http://logtv.com/films/lgbt/index.htm Coming Out Polish Style (co-directed with Katka Reszke), Trans-Action (HBO Central Europe), The Peretzniks, which premiered at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, NYC 2010, Paint What You Remember, premiered at Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2010, and Portraits of Emotion, a film about autism, which won him many international awards including: an Expression Award at Brazil’s Disability Film Festival, Grand Prix at the International Film Festival "Integration - You and Me", Koszalin, Poland 2008, and Grand Prix at the Belgrade International Film Festival, 2010. In 2010, Slawomir co-produced and shot In the Name of Their Mothers: The Story of Irena Sendler by Mary Skinner. Docboat 2009 - Warsaw Nonfiction E-Festival, granted Slawomir a prestigious award for Internationally Acclaimed Documentary Filmmaker with Polish Roots.[7]

Grünberg's director of photography credits include: HBO’s Legacy, which received an Academy Award Nomination for the best documentary feature in 2001, and HBO's Sister Rose's Passion, which won Best in Documentary Short at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004 and received an Academy Award Nomination for best documentary short in 2005. As a principal director of photography Slawomir shot over 50 documentaries, five of which received Emmy Nominations and two of which received Emmy Awards. Slawomir Grunberg is a recipient of Guggenheim, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Soros Justice Media Fellowships.[2]

In January 2013, Grünberg was working on the production of a partially animated documentary on Jan Karski - Karski & The Lords of Humanity.[8]

Filmography

References

  1. "School Prayer. Interview ǀ POV ǀ PBS". PBS. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "School Prayer . Bios | POV". PBS. Retrieved 2013-03-01.
  3. Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula (2010). Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film. University of Virginia Press. p. 280. ISBN 9780813930053.
  4. Johnson Jr., Allen. "Norco, the Movie". Gambit. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. "Slawomir Grunberg - San Francisco Jewish Film Festival". San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. Dooley, Megan. "Film Retraces Paths of a Painful Past". Vineyard Gazette. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. "UNAFF 2012: Films: The Red Button". UNAFF. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  8. Bonikowska, Margaret. "Renowned American Polish director Slawomir Grunberg is making a film about Jan Karski". Polonium. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

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