Slawomir Grünberg (grunberg@logtv.com) Slawomir Grünberg is an Emmy Award Winning documentary producer, director, cameraman, and editor born in Lublin, Poland. He is a graduate of 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 50 television documentaries. Shortly after his arrival in the States, he became a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and went on to teach film and television production courses at universities in Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, and Ithaca. In 1987, Slawomir started Log-In Productions, a professional film and video production company. His most recent film Fenceline: A Company Town Divided premiered on PBS in the POV season of 2002. It received awards at the 2002 San Francisco International Film Festival, Worldfest Houston, the Vermont International Film Festival and the Big Muddy Film Festival. School Prayer: A Community at War, which premiered on PBS in the 1999 POV season, received an Emmy Award as well as awards at 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. Grünberg's director of photography credits include Stealing the Fire, a 2003 Sundance Film Festival selection, and Legacy which received an Academy Award Nomination for the best documentary feature in 2001. 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 Hendrick Smith, and People's Century, as well as for Lifetime and HBO. In 1997, Shtetl, the epic film that Slawomir photographed and for which he served as second unit producer, was awarded the Silver Baton for Excellence in Radio/Television Journalism by Dupont-Columbia University. In 1996, Shtetl also received the Grand Prix at the Cinema du Reel Film Festival in Paris, France. His independent works focus on critical social, political, and environmental issues and have won him international recognition. In 1996, 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. 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, Slawomir Grünberg was named a Guggenheim Fellow for his work in documentary film, and in 2002 received a New York Artist's Fellowship. He was recently selected for a Soros Justice Media Fellowship. See: • Awards and Grants • Selected Production Credits • Camera and Editing [Order our Films] [Personnel] [Awards] [Clients] [Distribution] [Work In Progress] [Productions] [Comments] [Related Links] [E-Mail]