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Catherine
Allan Catherine Allan is senior executive producer for national productions at TPT/Twin Cities Public Television in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Her executive producing credits include two Peabody Award-winning productions: Liberty! The American Revolution and the acclaimed documentary feature film Hoop Dreams, voted the best film of the 1990s by Roger Ebert. Other PBS documentary credits include Jane Goodall: Reason for Hope and Continental Harmony. Ms. Allan is currently overseeing the production and development of several national series and specials for PBS, including a new primetime miniseries on the evolution of the American home. Ms. Allan's productions have won numerous awards, including two George Foster Peabody Awards, an Emmy, a student Academy Award, Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival, Cine Golden Eagle, Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival, Producers Guild of America, the Ohio State Award and a Silver Medal at the International Film and Television Festival of New York. She has a B.A. in American Literature and an M.A. in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.
Muffie Meyer and Ellen Hovde have over 25 years of film production experience. Their credits as directors and/or producers include Liberty! The American Revolution and American Photography: A Century of Images, for TPT/Twin Cities Public Television; an episode of Discovering Women for WGBH; two films in the series Dancing for WNET; An Empire of Reason, the story of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in New York State; Behind the Scenes, a ten-part series about the arts; Grey Gardens with Maysles Films, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, a feature film written by John Sayles, and films for the PBS series Nature and American Experience. They are currently working on a special for NOVA. Meyer/Hovde’s productions have won scores of major awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award, an Emmy, numerous Cine Golden Eagles, two nominations for “Best Director of a Documentary” by the Director’s Guild of America, several Christopher Awards, and both blue and red ribbons at the American Film Festival. Their films have been selected for the Cannes Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and many others.
Ronald Blumer has written and co-produced 60 documentary films, including American Photography: A Century of Images; Liberty! The American Revolution; an episode of New York, the PBS series produced by Ric Burns; and three series with Bill Moyers: Creativity, A Walk Through the Twentieth Century and The U.S. Constitution. His work also includes a film on the 1929 stock market crash for the series American Experience, films in the PBS series Dancing and Discovering Women, the Turner Broadcasting series Portrait of America and a historical drama, The Empire of Reason. He is currently writing a NOVA episode, and scripting interactive media for the National Constitution Center Museum under construction in Philadelphia. His work has received 30 major awards including four Emmy Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award.
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