4 documentaries
2 Emmy noms
1 AMAZING collaboration
4 documentaries - 2 Emmy noms - 1 AMAZING collaboration
STAN AND MARY FRIEDMAN
The success of Luna Productions is due to many people – friends and funders; colleagues and collaborators – and we are grateful to all of them. But at the top of the list of those who we are thankful for, are our favorite executive producers in the world … Stan and Mary Friedman.
This web page celebrates decades of friendship and cinematic-collaboration.
Here are the 4 documentaries we’ve made together – two made for broadcast, both subsequently nominated for Emmy Awards; and two short videos profiling worthy non-profit organizations that Stan and Mary (and we!) care a great deal about, CYDL (Center for Youth Development thru Law) and BPSF (Berkeley Public Schools Fund.)
Emmy Nomination.
Best Documentary awards at 8 film festivals. PBS Broadcast.
Their country asked them to kill.
Their hearts asked them to stop.
A portrait of eight US soldiers during the Iraq War,
facing the most difficult decision of their lives:
To kill or not to kill?
What would you do when your nation puts a rifle in your hands and another person in the gunsight?
The story of 4 who pulled the trigger and 4 who did not.
On the curriculum at West Point Military Academy as well as and Quaker, Mennonite and other traditional peace-oriented religious churches/organizations.
In use at VA Hospitals, PTSD therapy programs, and Vet Suicide Prevention programs,
Meet Dr Diamond … and prepare to be smitten. Learn more about your brain, about her brain, and about how her discoveries reshaped all our brains. Her research sparked 3 paradigm-shattering revolutions in science, all the more amazing since it came at a time when few women entered science at all. With charm and joy, she became a role model for anyone, male or female, getting rated as the 2nd most popular college professor in the world by the NYTimes. Emmy nominated, awarded Best Science documentary of the year in 3 nations and eleven film festivals.
Free study guides: grades 5-12 and college to PhD
Wanna a recipe for change? Here’s a good one :
- Take 16 at-risk teens
- Sift for those who dream of being lawyers … someday, somehow.
- Combine in a classroom with diverse and excellent teachers.
- Spread thouroughly across some challenging worthwhile internships.
- Sprinkle in a modest stipend.
- Bring to a boil all summer long in one hella’ great program called the Center for Youth Development through Law.
- Serve … (society for the rest of their lives)
25 minutes, 2008. Enjoy! We sure did. This is such a feel good story. Getting to video and hang out with these young people made us all feel like there is hope for the future.
… and to conclude:
Join us (via the photo) at Lincoln Center, New York, New York.
It is the 2018 News and Documentary Emmy Awards Ceremony.
It is the “My Love Affair with the Brain” team, Stan and Mary Friedman on the far right, to whom we say: thank you thank you and thank you again dear friends!
