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Jane C. Wagner Resumé
Selected Documentaries & Television
Producer • Director • Editor
Documentaries of Dissent, 2005
A documentary special profiling award-winning filmmakers including Morgan
Spurlock, Jehane Noujaim and Robert Greenwald, for the Sundance Channel.*
Producer • Director • Editor
Document 2003, 2004
A documentary special profiling award-winning filmmakers including Stanley
Nelson, Grace Guggenheim and Alex Rivera, for the Sundance Channel.*
Producer • Director• Editor
Document 2002, 2003
A documentary special profiling award-winning filmmakers including Ken
Burns, Agnès Varda and Lourdes Portillo, and, hosted by Michael
Moore, for the Sundance Channel.*
Producer • Director • Editor
Abduction Diaries, 2002
A non-fiction special kicking-off Steven Spielberg’s Taken,
for the SciFi Channel.*
Producer • Director
Nerve.com, 2001
Segments for an HBO special.*
Executive Producer • Series Producer
Code Blue: New Orleans, 2000
& 2001
With Lucas Platt—thirteen one-hour shows for The Learning Channel.*
Producer • Director • Editor
Walk This Way, 1998
An award-winning documentary on understanding diversity, part of the Erase
The Hate campaign. Produced for USA Networks.*
Editor
Reno Finds Her Mom, 1998
Producer Reno, Director Lydia Dean Pilcher—a feature length documentary
about a comedian's search for her biological mother. Produced for HBO.
Producer • Director • Editor
Girls Like Us, 1997
An ITVS documentary on teenage girls and sexuality. National broadcast
on PBS's primetime series P.O.V., the Sundance Channel and foreign television.
Winner of a National Emmy Award and the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury
Prize.*
Producer • Director • Writer
Two Or Three Things But Nothing For
Sure, 1996
An award-winning impressionistic documentary on author Dorothy Allison.
Produced for Channel 4 UK. National broadcast on PBS's P.O.V., the Sundance
Channel and foreign television.*
Producer • Director • Editor
Culture Wars, 1995
A program in the award-winning four-part lesbian and gay civil rights series
The Question Of Equality. Produced for ITVS & Channel 4 UK.
Broadcast on PBS & foreign television.*
Producer • Director • Editor
Tom's Flesh, 1994
With Tom diMaria—an experimental film on childhood abuse. Aired on
Showtime and Channel 4 U.K. Sundance Special Recognition Award-Winner.
Co-Producer • Consulting Editor
Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind Of Weird Twin Thing, 1991
Director Sue Marcoux—an award-winning film on twins. Broadcast nationally
on the primetime PBS series P.O.V. and foreign television.
Producer • Director • Editor
Hearts & Quarks, 1988
An internationally screened, award-winning documentary film on the social
responsibility of science. Broadcast on PBS.
Producer • Director • Editor
Women, Children And AIDS, 1988
A documentary on AIDS infection for women and children. Produced for the
San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
Miscellaneous
Producer • Director
#19, 2002
Award-winning advertising video launch for Allsteel’s new signature
chair.*
Producer • Director • Editor
Frameline Festival Trailers, 1992 & 1993
Film festival trailers and television spots. Telly Award, Best Non-Profit
Advertisement.*
Producer • Director • Editor
No Alternative, 1993
AIDS segments. Produced for Red Hot Organization. Broadcast on MTV.*
Producer • Director • Writer
Legacies, Tales From America: Una
Donna, 1993
A radio documentary on wartime rape. Produced for National Public Radio.*
Producer • Director • Editor
PSA’s That Work, 1991
An educational program on public service ads. Produced for the U.S. Office
for Substance Abuse Prevention.*
Associate Producer
Something To Remember Me By, 1990
Produced by Greta Schiller—a documentary on the renowned jazz singer
Maxine Sullivan. A Channel 4 U.K./La Sept Co-production.
Producer • Director • Editor
Keeping The Dream Alive, 1989
An educational documentary on The Martin Luther King Jr. Archive. Produced
for the Center for Non-Violent Social Change.*
Miscellaneous Editing
City Life, WNET; various industrials.
* Collaboration with Tina DiFeliciantonio
Selected Awards
Walk This Way, 1998:
First Place Winner for Most Innovative Film
Reel To Real Moving Images, Vancouver
First Place Winner
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
Skipping Stones Honor Award
Muticultural and Ecological Awareness
Girls Like Us, 1997:
National Emmy Award-Outstanding Cultural Program
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary
Sundance Film Festival
Gold Plaque
Chicago International Film Festival
Gold Apple Award
National Educational Media Network
Juror's Choice, Best Documentary
Charlotte Film & Video Festival
Best Documentary
Athens Film Festival
Best of Show & Gold Award
Health Sciences Communication Assoc.
Pro Choice Award
NARAL/NY
Honorable Mention
Atlanta Film & Video Festival
Two Or Three Things
But Nothing For Sure, 1996:
National Emmy Nomination -
Outstanding News & Documentary Program
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Grand Jury Prize
Aspen Shortfest
Juror's Choice Award
Charlotte Film & Video Festival
Best Women's Short Film
Cleveland International Film Festival
Isabella Liddell Art Award
Ann Arbor Film Festival
D-Vision Documentary Vision Award
Windy City International Documentary Festival
Best Short Film
New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Best Women's Short Film
Cleveland International Film Festival
Silver Spire
San Francisco International Film Festival
Silver Apple
National Educational Media Network
Bronze Award
New York Expo of Short Film & Video
Tom's Flesh, 1994:
Special Recognition Award/Best Short Documentary
Sundance Film Festival
Gold Apple Award
National Educational Media Network
Best Mixed Genre Film
Sinking Creek Film Festival
Juror's Choice Award
Black Maria Film Festival
Best Experimental Film
USA Film Festival
Tom Berman Award
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Silver Award, Experimental
New York Expo of Short Films
Best Experimental Film
Washington D.C. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Hearts & Quarks,
1988:
Bronze Apple Award
National Educational Film Festival
Finalist
USA Film Festival
Honorable Mention
Columbus International Film Festival
Selected Panels, Juries & Speaker
Artist Grants Program in Film/Video, Massachusetts
Cultural Council, Juror, 2005
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences,
Primetime and National Emmy, Juror, 2000-2004
Southwest Texas University, Center for Multicultural
Gender Studies, Speaker, 2003
Sundance Channel Doc Think Tank, Panelist, 2002
Production East, Panelist, 2002
“Girls’ Real Lives”, University of North Carolina,
Keynote Speaker, 2002
HBO’s Frame By Frame Film Series,
Moderator, 2001 & 2002
The Women Film Pioneers Project, American Museum
of the Moving Image, Keynote Speaker, 2000
Mississippi Crossroads Film Festival, Panel, 2000
PBS/P.O.V. Selection Committee, 1999
Jerome Foundation Fellowships, Funding Panel, 1999
Cinematexas Film Festival, Juror, 1998
The New York New Festival, Juror, 1998
New York Women in Film & Television, Panelist, 1998
Rocky Mountain Film Festival, Panelist, 1998
National Educational Media Network,
Juror & Jury Chair, 1991-1993
Film Arts Foundation, Sponsorship Panelist, 1989
Fellowships
National Endowment for the Arts Media Fellowship, 1999
Rockefeller Fellowship, 1998
American Film Institute Independent Film/Video
Fellowship, 1993
Western States Media Arts Fellowship, 1992
Stanford University Fellowship, 1985
London School of Economics Post Graduate Bursary,
1984
Selected Funding
Bay Area Video Coalition
California Council for the Humanities
Film Arts Foundation
Frameline Completion Fund
Funding Exchange/Paul Robeson Fund for
Independent Film
Idaho Humanities Council
Jerome Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
New York State Council for the Arts
Philadelphia Foundation
Valentine Foundation
Western States Media Arts Fellowship
Women's Film Fund
Women In Film Foundation
Board & Professional Affiliation
Foundation for Independent Film & Video,
Board Member, 2001 -2004
NYC's The New Festival, Advisory Board, 1996-Present
Also member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Women
In Film, AIVF, Film Arts Foundation, and, Film/Video Arts
Selected Teaching
New York University, Guest Lecturer, 1998-2004
Women Make Movies, Masters Class Lecturer 2002
Swarthmore College, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2002
Bennington College, Guest Lecturer, 2002
University of Pennsylvania, Guest Lecturer, 1998
University of Texas, Austin, Guest Lecturer, 1998
Bryn Mawr College, Guest Lecturer, 1998
Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art,
Guest Lecturer, 1998
Nassau Community College, Guest Lecturer, 1998
N.Y. School for Visual Arts, Guest Lecturer, 1996
Bay Area Video Coalition,
Editing Workshops, 1992-1994
Stanford University Department of Communications,
Teaching Assistant, 1986-1988
Education
MA, Communication, Stanford University 1988
M.Sc. Political Sociology, Distinction, London School
of Economics 1986
B.Sc. (Econ), Political Science, Upper Second Class
Honors, London School of Economics 1984
Books & Publications
"Girls Like Us" biographical essay in Coming of Age: 40
Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry and Song. ed.
Gina Misiroglu. New World Library, 1999
Feature articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including:
Afterimage
Chicago Tribune
Hollywood Reporter
Movieline
New York Daily News
New York Post
The Evening Post,
New Zealand
The New York Times
Interview Magazine |
People Magazine
Philadelphia Daily News
Philadelphia Inquirer
Speak Magazine
TV Guide
USA Today
Variety
Washington Post |
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