Have you ever wondered what our society would be like if 1/3 of the population were over the age of 65 – many of whom will live to be 85 or older? That will be our social reality in just one generation. And that is what the public television documentary film Coming of Age in …more
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Author: Christine Herbes-Sommers
Coming of Age in Aging America
April 7, 2017 | Category: Health, Life | Add Comment
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XChristine Herbes-Sommers
Background:
Ms. Herbes-Sommers has produced over 100 hours of documentary, dramatic and educational programming for PBS since 1976. Her first film Joan Robinson: One Woman’s Story won her first duPont Columbia Award in 1981, and her work over the years has garnered many other awards. She considers herself fortunate in having been able throughout her career to offer national broadcast social issue documentaries that make a difference.
At Vital Pictures she partnered with Llew Smith and California Newsreel to develop and produce the duPont Columbia Award-winning, four-part series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (2009) She was executive producer for the award-winning documentary Herskovits At the Heart of Blackness (2007). She was Producer for the Emmy-nominated American Denial (2015), Producer also for Raising of America: Early Childhood and the Future of our Nation (2014), and she is the producer/director for the Coming of Age in an Aging America project (2016-17. She was also producer of the lead program for the groundbreaking series Race: The Power of An Illusion in 2001. Prior to Vital Pictures, Christine was a staff producer at WGBH/Boston and at The Big Picture Company in Rhode Island where she created innovative programming for schools nationwide. She has a BA in Political Science from Knox College and a MA from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.
Please check out the Coming of Age in Aging America website.
You can contact Christine Herbes-Sommers at Vital Pictures via email.
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Author: Christine Herbes-Sommers posts: 1 Author's bio
XChristine Herbes-Sommers
Background:Ms. Herbes-Sommers has produced over 100 hours of documentary, dramatic and educational programming for PBS since 1976. Her first film Joan Robinson: One Woman’s Story won her first duPont Columbia Award in 1981, and her work over the years has garnered many other awards. She considers herself fortunate in having been able throughout her career to offer national broadcast social issue documentaries that make a difference.
At Vital Pictures she partnered with Llew Smith and California Newsreel to develop and produce the duPont Columbia Award-winning, four-part series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (2009) She was executive producer for the award-winning documentary Herskovits At the Heart of Blackness (2007). She was Producer for the Emmy-nominated American Denial (2015), Producer also for Raising of America: Early Childhood and the Future of our Nation (2014), and she is the producer/director for the Coming of Age in an Aging America project (2016-17. She was also producer of the lead program for the groundbreaking series Race: The Power of An Illusion in 2001. Prior to Vital Pictures, Christine was a staff producer at WGBH/Boston and at The Big Picture Company in Rhode Island where she created innovative programming for schools nationwide. She has a BA in Political Science from Knox College and a MA from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.
Please check out the Coming of Age in Aging America website.
You can contact Christine Herbes-Sommers at Vital Pictures via email.
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