Bill Lichtenstein, Producer
Bill Lichtenstein is producer of “The American Revolution.” Bill began his media career in 1970 at the age of 14 at WBCN-FM, first as a volunteer answering the station's Listener Line, and later as a newscaster and announcer. Bill’s subsequent work as a journalist spans the next 45 years, and includes working for seven years at ABC News “20/20,” “World News Tonight” and “Nightline,” where he researched and produced investigative reports, and, since 1990, serving as president of Lichtenstein Creative Media, an independent media production company based in Cambridge, MA. Bill Lichtenstein and LCMedia have been the recipient of more than 60 major broadcast honors, including a George Foster Peabody Award, TV and radio's highest honor; United Nations Media Award; Cine Golden Eagle; Guggenheim Fellowship; eight National Headliner Awards; three national news Emmy Awards nominations; and four Gracie Awards from American Women in TV and Radio.
From 1979 to 2005 Bill was a Member of the Faculty of the New School University, where he taught "Investigative Reporting for Television" and "Documentary Filmmaking." Bill's documentary film, “West 47th Street,” aired on the PBS series "P.O.V.," won "Best Documentary" at the Atlanta Film Festival and was called "must see" by Newsweek. Bill's also served as executive producer of the national, weekly public radio series, "The Infinite Mind," for 10 years public radio’s most honored and listened to health and science program; and the documentary "If I Get Out Alive," narrated by Academy Award-winning actress and youth advocate Diane Keaton, which examined the brutal conditions faced by juveniles in the adult prison system. Bill was also story editor of "Vietnam: Radio First Termer," an award-winning public radio documentary examining the uses of radio during the Vietnam War, and created and produced the highly-acclaimed "Voices of an Illness" radio documentary series, which has provided millions with an extraordinary window on living with serious mental illness since the series premiere in 1992.
Bill writes regularly on media, politics and health for the Huffington Post, and has written for The New York Times, Nation, Newsday, Boston Globe, Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, and TV Guide. Bill’s news photography has appeared on the front page of the New York Daily News and the Baltimore Sun. Bill wrote about WBCN and The American Revolution in recent articles including an Op-Ed piece in the Boston Globe, and for the Huffington Post.
From 1979 to 2005 Bill was a Member of the Faculty of the New School University, where he taught "Investigative Reporting for Television" and "Documentary Filmmaking." Bill's documentary film, “West 47th Street,” aired on the PBS series "P.O.V.," won "Best Documentary" at the Atlanta Film Festival and was called "must see" by Newsweek. Bill's also served as executive producer of the national, weekly public radio series, "The Infinite Mind," for 10 years public radio’s most honored and listened to health and science program; and the documentary "If I Get Out Alive," narrated by Academy Award-winning actress and youth advocate Diane Keaton, which examined the brutal conditions faced by juveniles in the adult prison system. Bill was also story editor of "Vietnam: Radio First Termer," an award-winning public radio documentary examining the uses of radio during the Vietnam War, and created and produced the highly-acclaimed "Voices of an Illness" radio documentary series, which has provided millions with an extraordinary window on living with serious mental illness since the series premiere in 1992.
Bill writes regularly on media, politics and health for the Huffington Post, and has written for The New York Times, Nation, Newsday, Boston Globe, Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, and TV Guide. Bill’s news photography has appeared on the front page of the New York Daily News and the Baltimore Sun. Bill wrote about WBCN and The American Revolution in recent articles including an Op-Ed piece in the Boston Globe, and for the Huffington Post.
Rob Massey, Director of Photography
Rob Massey travels New England and around the world for newsmagazines and documentaries. He shoots for CBS News, CNN, ABC News, NBC News, and PBS, as well as shooting independent documentaries and non-fiction TV.
Boyd Estus, Camera
Boyd Estus was director of photography of the Academy Award-winning "The Flight of the Gossamer Condor" and of the Academy Award-nominated "Eight Minutes to Midnight." Boyd has shot on location around the world, and directed feature films and documentaries. His work has received National News Emmy Awards, CINE Golden Eagles and a Peabody Award.
Timothy Meagher, Editing
Timothy Meagher's wide-ranging experience includes highly-acclaimed programs and documentaries for Frontline, Discovery, MTV and WGBH.
Jay Rooney, Executive Producer
Jay Rooney’s work in radio goes back to producing for air on WBCN in the early 1970s as part of the comedy group "Real Life," and later creating both short films and radio programs. He has since built several successful businesses, but he has remained an avid collector of radio and photographic archives. Jay is working on development, production and archives management for The American Revolution.
Sridhar Tayur, Executive Producer
Sridhar Tayur is an Academic Capitalist: a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University; Founder of the software company SmartOps and the social enterprise OrganJet; an investor in startups and venture capital. His charity, RAGS Family Foundation, funds documentaries, independent film festivals, higher education, medical research, microfinancing and programs combating human trafficking.
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Richard Barna, Executive Producer
Richard Barna was an original WBCN announcer in 1968. He was Program Director at WBRU in Providence and after ‘BCN was Program Director at WHCN, the 'BCN affiliate in Hartford. There he co-founded the Progressive Radio Network with over 400 stations nationwide. He has since built several successful non-radio businesses and is an active angel investor in New York. Richard is pleased to work with The American Revolution to create a compelling narrative of how music and media can forge a powerful community.
David Bieber, Associate Producer
David Bieber was Director of Special Projects for the Phoenix Media/Communications Group and previously handled all marketing, PR and advertising at WBCN for 16 years. David has contributed hundreds of articles and photos to numerous books and publications including Billboard and the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'N' Roll. David has assembled the Bieber Archives, a vast collection of popular culture and rock 'n' roll memorabilia.
Paul Adams/Mass Productions, Audio and Video Archival Digitization
Paul Adams and Mass Productions are responsible for the digitization of the audio and video archives for “The American Revolution.” Paul's background includes working in radio as an announcer and audio engineer at WQRC on Cape Cod. Paul later worked for more than a decade in digital media duplication and printing.
Tiffany Lopinsky, Researcher
Tiffany Lopinsky is a senior at Harvard University, and is passionate about history and film making. She has created documentaries on various subjects including “The Anti-War Protests at Harvard University,” for the anniversary of the 1969 student strike.
Virginia Wilking, Archival Researcher
Virginia Wilking is a gradate of Boston University and the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she received a Masters. She has worked for Ralph Lauren and as an archivist at the Wall Group, as well as for non-profit organizations. She remains a rock and roll enthusiast.
Lisa Crafts, Film Animator
Lisa Crafts is known for her animation work that is characterized by richly rendered imagery and a quietly quirky sensibility. Crafts is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow and has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work includes animations for Sesame Street and American Movie Classics.
Peter Miller, Story Editor and Consulting Producer
Peter Miller has co-produced PBS documentaries by Ken Burns including the epic PBS series "The War" and "Jazz," and the Peabody Award-winning "Frank Lloyd Wright." Peter’s own documentary films include the highly-acclaimed "A.K.A. Doc Pomus," about the legendary songwriter. He brings to The American Revolution his experience in managing films with large volume archives and helping craft them into compelling documentaries.
Anthony Wermuth, Music Consultant
Anthony Wermuth has done just about everything you can do in the music business . . . except become rich. He began as a volunteer at WBCN-FM in 1971, answering the station's Listener Line. and later worked in production, news and comedy on air. He later co-hosted "The Spiritual Hour". He collects and writes about music and much of the material featured in the project is from his extensive collection.
Christopher T. Bavitz, Legal Advisor
Christopher T. Bavitz is Managing Director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Chris concentrates on intellectual property and media law, particularly in the areas of music, entertainment, and technology. He oversees many of the Clinic’s copyright, and speech projects. Previously, Chris served as Senior Director of Legal Affairs for EMI Music North America.
Jay Fialkov, Legal Advisor
Jay Fialkov is deputy general counsel and an executive producer at WGBH, and president of WGBH’s music publishing companies. As a former entertainment attorney, his clients included Phish, George Thorogood, the estate of famed bluesman Robert Johnson, Rick Danko of the Band, Rounder Records, and Rykodisc, Jay is perfectly placed to assist with the development and material rights for the film.
John Scagliotti, Production Advisor
John Scagliotti was WBCN's news and public affairs director and worked at the station with his partner, Andy Kopkind, a former Washington Post and Time magazine reporter and a leading alternative journalist in the late 1960s. At WBCN, John and Andy produced the first regularly scheduled gay and lesbian program in 1973, “The Lavender Hour,” which would later inspire Scagliotti to create “In the Life,” the first gay and lesbian TV show, airing on PBS, and his Emmy Award-winning films “Before Stonewall” and “After Stonewall.” Andy succumbed to cancer in 1994, but his and John’s work endures and helped change the world for LGBT people
Robert Sennott, Executive Producer
Rob Sennott worked at WBCN in its early days as a volunteer on the station's Listener Line, and later became a successful entrepreneur and executive specializing in sales, marketing and business development. He has launched and run numerous successful companies. Rob also served on the board of directors of the Upper Valley Haven, a Vermont social service and anti-poverty program.
Contributors and Archivists
"The American Revolution" would not be possible without the generous commitment of time and the use of film, video, photographs, audio material, and memorabilia from dozens of supporters. Those who have assisted with the project by lending their time, accounts and material to the film will be credited in the documentary. The list is being added to daily and includes: Photographers: Peter Simon, Jeff Albertson, Barry Schneier. Graphic Artists: Eric Engstrom.
Archival material: Al Perry, Tim Montgomery, Danny Schechter, Andy Beck, Chip Mediner, Tommy Hadges, Chachi Loprete, family of John Ragucci, Sam Kopper, Tom Couch, John Brodey, Marsha Steinberg, John Scagliotti, Bill Spurlin, Fred Taylor, Dan Beach, Eli Polonsky, WTBS/WMBR-FM, Andy Beck, Nick DeWolf and Steve Lundeen (and family), Michael Andrade, Aaron Mintz, Wes Golumb, WookieCookie, Dan Riviello and the Cambridge Police Department, Alan Lewis, Scoop Nisker, David Silver, Larry Rosensweig, Fred Barzyk, Betsy Siggins, Harvard University Archives, Harvard Crimson, Sam Green, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Antonio Scotto, Steve Minichiello, Paul Johnson, MIT Museum and Frank Conahan, Ken Brown, Barry Schneier, Vanderbilt Television News Archive, Steve Borack, UMass Amherst Archives, Pacifica Radio Archives, Video Visuals, Indochina Peace Campaign Archives at UMass, Alan Lewis, Bill Seigl, and Paulino Moreira. (List in formation.)
Archival material: Al Perry, Tim Montgomery, Danny Schechter, Andy Beck, Chip Mediner, Tommy Hadges, Chachi Loprete, family of John Ragucci, Sam Kopper, Tom Couch, John Brodey, Marsha Steinberg, John Scagliotti, Bill Spurlin, Fred Taylor, Dan Beach, Eli Polonsky, WTBS/WMBR-FM, Andy Beck, Nick DeWolf and Steve Lundeen (and family), Michael Andrade, Aaron Mintz, Wes Golumb, WookieCookie, Dan Riviello and the Cambridge Police Department, Alan Lewis, Scoop Nisker, David Silver, Larry Rosensweig, Fred Barzyk, Betsy Siggins, Harvard University Archives, Harvard Crimson, Sam Green, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Antonio Scotto, Steve Minichiello, Paul Johnson, MIT Museum and Frank Conahan, Ken Brown, Barry Schneier, Vanderbilt Television News Archive, Steve Borack, UMass Amherst Archives, Pacifica Radio Archives, Video Visuals, Indochina Peace Campaign Archives at UMass, Alan Lewis, Bill Seigl, and Paulino Moreira. (List in formation.)
Center for Independent Documentary
The Center for Independent Documentary (CID) is the non-profit 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor of The American Revolution. CID has been collaborating with independent producers in the creation of independent documentaries on issues of contemporary social and cultural concern for more than 25 years. Recent CID projects include Beth Harrington's "The Winding Stream," Nancy Kates' "Regarding Susan Sontag," Judith Helfand's "Blue Vinyl" and Bennett Singer's "Brother Outsider." Our over 150 CID films have been seen on HBO, PBS, at the Sundance Festival, and have earned numerous awards from Emmy’s to Peabody’s.
The Center for Independent Documentary (CID) is the non-profit 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor of The American Revolution. CID has been collaborating with independent producers in the creation of independent documentaries on issues of contemporary social and cultural concern for more than 25 years. Recent CID projects include Beth Harrington's "The Winding Stream," Nancy Kates' "Regarding Susan Sontag," Judith Helfand's "Blue Vinyl" and Bennett Singer's "Brother Outsider." Our over 150 CID films have been seen on HBO, PBS, at the Sundance Festival, and have earned numerous awards from Emmy’s to Peabody’s.
Lichtenstein Creative Media
Lichtenstein Creative Media is a Peabody Award-winning independent media production company located in Cambridge, MA. LCMedia has extensive media production, distribution and educational/community outreach experience, particularly with social justice and human rights issues.
LCMedia was founded in 1990 by Bill Lichtenstein, a former investigative producer for ABC News “20/20,” “World News Tonight” and “Nightline.” Bill’s work, and that of LCMedia, have received more than 60 major print and broadcast journalism honors, including a Peabody Award, United Nations Media Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, eight National Headliner Awards and a Cine Golden Eagle.
LCMedia produced the highly-acclaimed cinema verite documentary film, “West 47th Street,” which follows three years in the life of four people with serious mental illness. At times hilarious and at other times tragic, “West 47th Street” was winner of "Best Documentary" at the Atlanta Film Festival and DC Independent Film Festival, received an Honorable Mention at the Woodstock Film Festival, and sold out festivals and theatres across the U.S. and internationally from Vancouver to Paris to Dublin to South Korea. The film aired on the PBS series P.O.V., and was called "must see" by Newsweek and "remarkable" by the Washington Post. It was accompanied by a 100-city educational outreach campaign with screenings at Grand Rounds at Yale Medical School, the Carter Center, and the Department of Homeless Services in California’s Santa Clara County.
For more than a decade, LCMedia produced “The Infinite Mind,” public radio’s most honored and listened to health and science program, with 30 major broadcast journalism awards and one million listeners weekly. LCMedia also produced and distributed “If I Get Out Alive,” narrated by Academy Award-winning actress and youth advocate Diane Keaton, the first documentary to examine the conditions and brutality faced by juveniles in the adult prison system. The program won first prize in the National Headliner Awards, a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism among other honors.
Bill created and produced the highly-acclaimed “Voices of an Illness” radio documentary series which has provided millions with an extraordinary window on living with serious mental illness since the series premiere in 1992. The programs on clinical depression, manic depression and schizophrenia were narrated by Rod Steiger, Patty Duke and Jason Robards and the three-part series was called “remarkable,” by Time magazine.
LCMedia has also pioneered the use of 3-D virtual reality, in the on-line community Second Life, for public broadcast, health, education, and other non-profit social uses. These include the first live public radio broadcasts from Second Life, with Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne Vega; a live event for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Darfur featuring Mia Farrow.
LCMedia was founded in 1990 by Bill Lichtenstein, a former investigative producer for ABC News “20/20,” “World News Tonight” and “Nightline.” Bill’s work, and that of LCMedia, have received more than 60 major print and broadcast journalism honors, including a Peabody Award, United Nations Media Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, eight National Headliner Awards and a Cine Golden Eagle.
LCMedia produced the highly-acclaimed cinema verite documentary film, “West 47th Street,” which follows three years in the life of four people with serious mental illness. At times hilarious and at other times tragic, “West 47th Street” was winner of "Best Documentary" at the Atlanta Film Festival and DC Independent Film Festival, received an Honorable Mention at the Woodstock Film Festival, and sold out festivals and theatres across the U.S. and internationally from Vancouver to Paris to Dublin to South Korea. The film aired on the PBS series P.O.V., and was called "must see" by Newsweek and "remarkable" by the Washington Post. It was accompanied by a 100-city educational outreach campaign with screenings at Grand Rounds at Yale Medical School, the Carter Center, and the Department of Homeless Services in California’s Santa Clara County.
For more than a decade, LCMedia produced “The Infinite Mind,” public radio’s most honored and listened to health and science program, with 30 major broadcast journalism awards and one million listeners weekly. LCMedia also produced and distributed “If I Get Out Alive,” narrated by Academy Award-winning actress and youth advocate Diane Keaton, the first documentary to examine the conditions and brutality faced by juveniles in the adult prison system. The program won first prize in the National Headliner Awards, a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism among other honors.
Bill created and produced the highly-acclaimed “Voices of an Illness” radio documentary series which has provided millions with an extraordinary window on living with serious mental illness since the series premiere in 1992. The programs on clinical depression, manic depression and schizophrenia were narrated by Rod Steiger, Patty Duke and Jason Robards and the three-part series was called “remarkable,” by Time magazine.
LCMedia has also pioneered the use of 3-D virtual reality, in the on-line community Second Life, for public broadcast, health, education, and other non-profit social uses. These include the first live public radio broadcasts from Second Life, with Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne Vega; a live event for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Darfur featuring Mia Farrow.
"The American Revolution" is a 501(c)(3) non-profit fiscal project of the Center for Independent Documentary. (c) 2018 Lichtenstein Creative Media, Inc. All rights reserved. .