The Arts & Life Adventure
A few select clips
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing:
Emmy & Academy Award Winning Documentary
An award-winning documentary for television and theatrical release produced by Edgar J. Scherick Associates, Scott Rudin, Executive Producer, for NBC Project Peacock. Grossman awarded the Emmy for Editing, the program won Academy Award for Best Documentary, the Peabody, and Christopher Award. Co-editor of this special for NBC that looked at a year in the life of the National Dance Institute and its creator Jacques D’Amboise.
Woman's Work Video Production: Making Quilts ~ Creating Art
A one-hour documentary produced, directed and edited by Charlotte Grossman (Woman’s Work Video Productions), broadcast nationally in 70 markets through American Public Television (APT). 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 more information, click here.
The Promise of Play
Three 1-hour programs produced by InCA Productions for the American Toy Institute broadcast on American Public Television (APT). The series discusses the fundamental need for play and how people indulge in play, in all its diversity. The three programs are: The Mother of Invention, A World of Your Own, and The Heart of the Matter.
Dreaming Dreams—Amelia Earhart’s Final Voyage
A multiple version documentary for different audiences (90-, 60-, 30- and 12-minute lengths), produced by IDeA/InCA Productions for the National Air and Space Museum of the 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.
First Edition
A six-part biographical profile series on authors produced by Santa Fe Productions for KQED-TV. Each 30-minute biography profiles a living author and their work including Anna Deveare Smith’s Fire in the Mirror, Mary Higgins Clark’s strange Yales, 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.
Feature Film Trailers -
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.
Coming of Age: Napa Valley
We meet the original creators of the thriving Napa Valley winemaker’s community including Robert Mondavi, Mike Grgich and an impressive group of people who put Napa Valley on the world map of winemakers.
Hobbs Case
Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland, Sopranos, Rome) directed this 40-minute dramatic film as his very early directorial debut. Filmed by Lloyd Freidus. Starring Guy Boyd. Edited by Charlotte Grossman.