Director: Michael Schwarz Producers: Michael Schwarz, Edward
Gray
Description:
Silicon
Valley is the world's technological and economic powerhouse, and the
secret to its success is a unique mix of ingredients that can't be
found anywhere else on earth.
Biography: Michael
Schwarz founded Kikim Media in 1996 after working for many years in public
television as an independent producer and then as part of the senior
management team at KQED, the PBS affiliate in San Francisco.
Schwarz’s work has been honored with some of the most prestigious
awards in broadcasting—three national Emmy Awards, two George
Foster Peabody Awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University
Journalism Award for Investigative Journalism, the Investigative
Reporters and Editors Award, Red and Blue Ribbons from the American
Film Festival, four awards for Excellence in Local Broadcasting from
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Grand Prize in the
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for Coverage of the
Disadvantaged, and numerous Ciné Golden Eagles and local Emmys.
Schwarz’s programs for public television include Emmy-nominated In
Defense of Food and The
Botany of Desire based
on Michael Pollan’s best-selling books; My
Father, My Brother and Me,
a chronicle of Parkinson’s disease, for Frontline,
and Hunting
the Hidden Dimension,
the story of fractal geometry, for NOVA.
Edward
Gray is a three-time
Emmy Award winner, a two-time winner of the Writers Guild of America
Award, and a winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award. For PBS his films
include: In Defense of
Food, based on the book
by best-selling author Michael Pollan; Alaska,
The World and Wally Hickel,
the story of a political maverick; The
Botany of Desire, based
on Michael Pollan’s book; Security
vs. Liberty, a look at
post-9/11 counterterrorism policies; Through
Many Lives: The Aging Brain,
for the series The Secret
Life of the Brain; The
Orphan Trains, an
episode of the American
Experience series; The
World That Moses Built.
Ed’s films for ABC News include: Peter
Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination–Beyond Conspiracy; Nothing To Fear,
for the series The
Century; Dangerous
World: The Kennedy Years.
