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. |