Log In Productions
 
Slawomir Grünberg

     Log In Productions, a professional film and video production company, was founded by Slawomir Grünberg in 1987. Based in Ithaca, NY, Log In Productions, with its state-of-the-art equipment and experienced personnel, has attracted television networks worldwide, including PBS (USA), HBO (USA), TVP (Poland), NHK (Japan), SWR (Germany), NOS (Holland) and Planete Cable (France). Log In has participated in such major television series as Frontline , NOVA, American Masters, The AIDS Quarterly with Peter Jennings, Inside Gorbachev's USSR with Hendrick Smith, The People's Century and the Lifetime's Intimate Portraits series.

    Slawomir Grünberg is an Emmy Award Winning documentary producer, director, cameraman, and editor born in Lublin, Poland. He is a graduate of the Polish Film School in Lodz, where he studied cinematography and directing. He emigrated from Poland to the US in 1981, and has since directed and produced over 40 television documentaries.

    School Prayer: A Community at War premiered on PBS in the 1999 POV season, received an Emmy Award, and won many film festivals around the world. It also won The Jan Karski Competition, a competition designed to recognize and award outstanding television documentaries produced on the theme of moral courage. School Prayer was produced by Log In Productions in association with The Independent Television Service, with additional support provided by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Soros Documentary Fund. Grunberg’s most recent film Fenceline: A Company Town Divided premiered on PBS in the POV season of 2002 and received, among others, an award at the 2002 San Francisco International Film Festival and Vermont International Film Festival. Fenceline: A Company Town Divided also received a 2003 Environmental Media Association Award (EMA). This award, presented in Los Angeles to Slawomir Grunberg was the first ever given in the documentary feature category. The EMA Awards honor film and television productions that increase public awareness of environmental problems and inspire personal action on these problems. His 2005 documentary - Borderline: The People vs. Eunice Baker received Best Documentary Award on a Theme on Disability at the Picture This…Festival in Calgary, Canada. The most recent of Grünberg’s films are the Holocaust related documentaries: The Legacy of Jedwabne - awarded at The Crossroads of Europe Film Festival in Lublin, Poland and Saved by Deportation - the Audience Award at Washington Jewish Film Festival and Portraits of Emotion, a film about autism - an Expression Award at Brazil’s Disability Film Festival.

   In 2004, Slawomir received the DreamCatcher Award at the Hope and Dreams Film Festival. This award was to recognize his commitment to documentary filmmaking. His independent works focus on critical social, political, and environmental issues and have won him international recognition. Chelyabinsk: The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet, which Slawomir produced and directed, was awarded the Grand Prix at the International Nature & Environmental Film Festival, Grenoble, France in 1996. In 1998, his other documentary that deals with environmental issues, From Chechnya to Chernobyl, was awarded a Grand Prix at the International Environmental Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic and also received a prestigious Golden Cine Award in the US. In 1997, Shtetl, the epic film that Slawomir photographed and served as second unit producer for, was awarded the Silver Baton for Excellence in Radio/Television Journalism by duPont-Columbia University. Shtetl also received the Grand Prix at the Cinema du Reel Film Festival in Paris, France in 1996.

     His director of photography credits include among others: Legacy, which received an Academy Award Nomination for the best documentary feature in 2001, and Sister Rose’s Passion, which won the Best in Documentary Short at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004 and received an Academy Award Nomination for the best documentary short in 2005. As a principal director of photography, he has shot over 50 documentaries, four of which received Emmy Nominations. Slawomir has also been a contributing director of photography and editor for the PBS series: Frontline, AIDS Quarterly, American Masters, NOVA, Health Quarterly, Inside Gorbachev's USSR with Hedrick Smith and People's Century as well as Lifetime and HBO.

    A recipient of Guggenheim, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and Soros Justice Media Fellowships, Grunberg has received multiple grants from National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the New York Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Documentary films by Slawomir Grünberg have been screened at various prestigious theaters, including Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and at festivals from Iran, France, Germany, Korea, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Canada, Slovakia, Portugal, Czech Republic, Belarus, Tunisia and Poland. His films are in the permanent collections of many film societies, festivals and libraries.

 
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