
Marcia
Jarmel & Ken Schneider
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Partners
in PatchWorks since 1995, Marcia Jarmel (director, producer,
writer) and Ken Schneider (co-producer, editor) produce
films that explore contemporary social issues through
intimate character stories. Their award-winning films
have been broadcast around the world and have screened
at museums, film festivals, schools, universities, public
libraries, and for community groups. Support for their films comes
from organizations such as the Independent Television
Service
(CPB), the California and Illinois Humanities Councils,
the Lucius & Eva Eastman Fund, the Film Arts Foundation,
Pacific Pioneer Fund, the Fund for Jewish Documentary
Film, the William Bingham Foundation, and many private
donors.
Marcia
Jarmel has
produced and directed two feature documentaries and
several
shorts for PatchWorks Films. Her current project, Speaking
in Tongues, tells the story
of three children becoming bilingual and bicultural
in the public
schools. Her two
previous feature documentaries The
Return of Sarah's Daughters,
and Born
in the U.S.A. aired on public
television.Her outreach campaign for Born resulted
in hundreds of women's health advocates and educators
across the country using the film to improve maternity
care. She is also developing Maternal Mystique, telling
50 years of turbulent history as feminism collides
with the popular culture of motherhood, and Luna, an
animated environmental tale for children. Other credits
include co-editing the Academy award nominee, For
Better or For Worse, and assistant producing
the Academy nominees Berkeley in the Sixties and Freedom
on My Mind. She also helped develop scripts
for Song of Our Children, —profiling
the struggles of children and youth with disabilities
seeking
inclusion in schools, Streams of Gold—a
grandson's journey to discover the legacy of
his grandfather's gold mine in Latin America, and Liewella—looking
at the efforts to save the culture of a Micronesian
people.
In addition to his work editing
and co-producing PatchWorks' films,
Ken Schneider has edited numerous films exploring
American lives, war and peace, and portraits of artists.
He co-edited the Peabody Award-winning Regret To
Inform (Academy
and national Emmy nominee, Indie Spirit Award, IDA award
for distinctive use of archival footage, Sundance Film
Festival award). Other projects include Freedom Machines,
a P.B.S. P.O.V. special looking at the convergence of
disability, technology and civil rights; Ralph Ellison:
An American Journey, a PBS' American Masters program
that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; The
Good War and Those who Refused to Fight it, about
WWII conscientious objectors; Store Wars: When Wal-Mart
Comes to Town,
aired as a PBS special; Ancestors in the Americas,
Part 2: Pioneers in the American West, profiling
the Chinese-American Experience; and Frontline's Columbia-Dupont-winning School
Colors, a look at integration and segregation, 40
years after the Brown v. Board decision.. All
aired on national public television. Ken has consulted
on dozens of other documentaries and lectures at San
Francisco City College, the San Francisco Art Institute,
and the
Film Arts Foundation.
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