CHARLOTTE'S CREDITS

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Charlotte Grossman
Documentary Editor
(415) 789-0064
charlotte@womansworkvideo.com
www.charlottegrossman.com
www.womansworkvideo.com

Summary
Charlotte Grossman is a highly experienced editor who has worked in both film and video to create documentaries for television, theatrical trailers, narrative film and advertising. She is an excellent story teller who has edited programs on a wide variety of themes—including human health and medicine, art, advanced technology, major league sports, dance, theatre, wildlife, literature and politics. As an editor, Charlotte has worked collaboratively and effectively with producers and directors at all stages of production. Charlotte has been editing on the Avid since 1991.

Editing Projects
2007-8 Life Wrap – Medical Education
Produced by Midwife Association for distribution via UN
Four segments targeting different levels of international medical care provider community. The focus was on a simple new technology to help eradicate loss of life by women during childbirth in developing countries.

2007  Concha: Rose of the Presideo – Light Opera
Produced for Candace Forrest, Viva Concha Productions
90 minute video from the three-camera shoot of the live performance of a fully produced light opera on an historic theme relating to the origins of San Francisco and a 10 minute promotional trailer.

2007 La Dredging de Paradise Cay
Self Produced
A four-minute musical homage to the dredging of an historical network of canals in Northern California.

2004-8 Woman’s Work: Ordinary Women – Extraordinary Lives
Producer and director for documentary series work in progress:

2001-4 Woman’s Work: Making Quilts ~ Creating Art (Series Pilot)
Produced, Directed and Edited by Charlotte Grossman – Woman’s Work Productions
Broadcast nationally in 70 markets through American Public Television (APT)
Ten members of a group of an art quilters group live in the San Francisco Bay Area and meet once a month to critique each others work. Each woman works alone in her studio the rest of the time. This pilot program for the Woman’s Work series gives us an intimate look inside the artists’ workrooms as they think and create their works of art. The program investigates the process of making art and how a whole life’s experiences contribute to the process. This documentary is not only about fabric or quilting—Woman’s Work is about how women of today find their creative voice and self-validation through an amazingly creative and beautiful medium that is just beginning to get recognition as more than craft alone.  For clips and content please see www.womansworkvideo.com. 1 hour

2001 Coming of Age: Napa Valley
Produced for the Copia Wine and Food Museum
For screening as part of the story of Copia and the Napa Valley, this film examines one of the most innovative areas for wine production in the world. The nature of thuis special place and the mixture of winemakers, young and old, has brought new life to the entire world of grape growing and wine production.

2000 Climb Against the Odds - Mount Fuji 2000
Produced by Lynn Pearson
Produced for Applied Materials
A four-part project, including a 40 minute documentary, a video streaming segment and a corporate portrait made to accompany a photographic exhibit. The main documentary takes place in August of 2000, as a group of breast cancer survivors and daughters and friends of women who have died from this disease, have come to Japan to climb Mt. Fuji. Most of these climbers have trained hard for almost a year to be able make this arduous pilgrimage up famed Mt. Fuji.  The amazing footage witnesses the challenge of this climb, as these women tell us how they see this moment as representing how they have conquered Cancer. This effort was a joint climb between the Japanese and American survivors to raise awareness of this disease all over the world.

2000 The Promise of Play
Produced by InCA Productions
Produced for the American Toy Institute
All living beings that dream, it has been said, also need play in their lives. This is a three part series on the importance of play at each stage of our lives, the role of play in our relationships as children, parents, spouses, and workers. The series discusses the fundamental need for play and how people indulge in play, in all its diversity. The three shows are The Mother of Invention, A World of Your Own, and The Heart of the Matter.

1999 Rules to Ride on VTA
Produced by the Hispanic Education and Media Group (HEMG)
Produced for the San Jose Valley Transit Authority
A "made-for-the-classroom" project to inform the kids of San Jose about the ease, safety and convenience of taking public buses and trains. 20 minutes

1999 Final Choice: America Struggles with the Right to Die
Produced by Ant Hill Productions, Pam Rorke Levy, Producer
Produced for the Commonwealth Club of California and KQED
An intense and comprehensive look at the ongoing national debate concerning the legal rights of people suffering from terminal illness and their access to physician assisted suicide. 1 hour

1998-9 Living with Lupus
Produced by Mosaic Productions. Broadcast on PBS
The story of two young women recently diagnosed with Lupus, and their efforts to understand the emotional and medical realities of this disease. They travel by RV to visit the homes of people in California, Nevada and Arizona, all living with Lupus. Marcia Raymond and Karin Mellberg are attempting to discover how these courageous people are dealing with lives touched by this serious and sometimes terminal chronic disease. The narrator was Charles Osgood. 30 minutes

1997 Dreaming Dreams: Amelia Earhart’s Final Voyage
Produced by IDeA/InCA Productions
Produced for National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
This program tells the fatal, but never completed, last voyage of Amelia Earhart in 1937 from a new point of view.  A Texas Aviator, Linda Finch, restored a 60 year old Lockheed Electra and set out to recreate Earhart’s journey, followed by a Grumman Albatross, an old amphibious flying boat of World War II vintage with a camera crew on board. The film provides an exciting contrast between the two journeys. Amelia, poet and adventurer, flew by instinct with her navigator Fred Noonan. Amelia sent back cables and articles written along the route, until she disappeared. Linda flies an electronically equipped Electra and is followed on the Internet. It is a story of tragedy and triumph. Four different versions of this project were produced for different audiences, a 90 minute version, a 60 minute version, a 30 minute version and a 12 minute version.  

1996 The Free Willy Story: Keiko’s Journey Home
Produced by EarthViews Productions
Produced for Discovery Channel
This program tells the story of the amazing life of Keiko, the Orca Whale, who became the star of FREE WILLY, a feature film made in 1992. The documentary follows Keiko’s journey from captivity at the age of two to his rescue and placement in a specially built rehabilitation pool in Oregon fifteen years later. The story reveals the intimacy of Orca mothers and their babies and the amazing intelligence and personality of these magnificent ocean mammals. Keiko tastes seawater for the first time in 15 years when he finally is released into his new home in Oregon. Narrated by Renee Russo. 1 hour

1995 United Nations 50th Anniversary Celebration
Produced by A Major Production
Produced for MacDougall Creative and the United Nations
Three moving, historical montages about the birth and development of the United Nations, used to open the celebrations in San Francisco in 1995.

1994 First Edition
Produced by Santa Fe Productions
Produced for KQED-TV
A six part biographical series about living authors and their work including Anna Deveare Smith’s Fire in the Mirror, Mary Higgins Clark’s strange tales, Richard Avedon’s Autobiography in photographs, Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, Maurice Sendak’s Rosie and Gore Vidal’s Essays and many more. Hosted by Shari Belafonte. Several ½ programs/

1994 Our Fragile Fortress
Produced by InCA Productions.
Produced for KTEH
Commemorative documentary on the contributions of Louis Pasteur to the world of preventative medicine and the challenges of combating epidemics due to new strains of disease, people’s non-compliance with treatment, and failure to inoculate their children.

1992-3 The Heart of Healing: Remarkable Stories of How We Heal Ourselves
Produced by InCA Productions.
Produced for Turner Broadcasting
Three – 90 minute programs of the stories of a fascinating variety of individuals and groups world wide that have experienced healing and remission from diseases and disorders of many different kinds. Taped in Asia, Africa, Europe, and all over the U.S. Host and narrator was Jane Seymour. This also became an eight part series sold through Time-Life Video.

1991 The Mini-Dragons: Hong Kong
Produced by InCA Productions
Produced for Maryland Public Television
“Hong Kong” is one of a four part series for Maryland Public Television about the economies of the four fastest growing economic centers in Asia, including Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. The Hong Kong show focuses on the dramas of four individuals during the period leading up to the transfer of Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997. There are scenes of daily from the harbors of Hong Kong to its movie studios to the workshops and boomtown of Shen Szhen on the Mainland. 1 hour.

1987 Trackdown: Prisoners on the Street
Produced by New Screen Concepts
Produced for CBS
One-hour show, one of the first reality television shows produced, following individuals who had broken parole, documenting their capture by law enforcement officers. Hosted by Avery Brooks. 1 hour.

1984-86 Tarlovsky-Grossman Films
Production and postproduction of corporate medical and educational films.

1983 He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing
Produced by Edgar J. Scherick Associates, Scott Rudin, Executive Producer
Produced for NBC Project Peacock
Co-editor of this special for NBC that looked at a year in the life of the National Dance Institute and it’s creator Jacques D’Amboise. This documentary deals with Jacques D’Amboise’s love of art and hard work and the commitment of the children and adults in one year’s effort to produce a show. This project won the Oscar and several Emmys (including Charlotte Grossman, editing), the Peabody, Christopher and many other awards. 1 hour.

1980-83 Trailers for Feature Films
Eleuthrya Editorial
Grossman Edited the trailers for: The Deerhunter, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (remake), Yanks, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Chapter Two, Butch and Sundance—The Early Years, Eye of the Needle, and many more.

1979 The Hobbs Case
Alan Coulter (Hollywoodland, Sopranos, Rome) directed this 40-minute dramatic film as his directorial debut. Filmed by Lloyd Freidus. Starring Guy Boyd.

1977-79 The Body Human Series

--Bionic Breakthrough
--The Living Code
--The Loving Process (parts 1 & 2)

Produced by MedCom Productions
Produced for CBS Special Features.
Grossman was one of a three-editor team that cut two 1 hour segments for the series. She was also responsible for editing two half-hours hosted by Linda Gray on male sexuality for this series. She received sole credit and was nominated for an Emmy for this program. This was a very personal look at doctors, their patients and modern technology in medicine.

1976 It’s Tough to Make it in this League
Produced by Filmpower
Produced for ABC Sports
Football action, like dance, can be edited into powerful montages. This documentary is an investigative look at the realities of the career of football from babyhood through the Over-the-hill -Gang of middle aged guys playing hurt for the Redskins. The use of NFL slow motion and extreme close up photography highlights the often-painful aspects of a life dedicated to violent yet controlled physical movement by professionals and amateurs alike.  1 hour.

1972-74 ABC Sports Specials
--The Lady is a Champ
--Women in Sports

Produced by ABC Sports
Produced for ABC Sports
These two shows were the first ABC Sports specials about women and their sports careers. Both are hour-long specials highlighting sports from tennis to swimming to cross-country eventing to skiing. Hosted by Billy Jean King and Diana Shore. Produced by the first woman producer at ABC Sports, Eleanor Riger

copyright 2009, Charlotte Grossman Post Production
email: charlotte@microweb.com