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lindafeferman

Los Angeles

Producer, Writer, Director

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Title/Occupation:  Director  Educator  Executive  Grant Writer  Producer  Writer 

Services Provided:  Media Arts Organization 

Gender: Female

Race: Caucasian/White

Citizenship: USA

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I think my most valuable ability in film, video, & TV is the variety of genres I have worked in: Feature, Documentaries, Biographical films, Science Documentaries, Sex-Ed, Music Videos, Talk Show, & Web content.

Biography: 

Linda Feferman Films, Inc.: Linda Feferman, the principal filmmaker, writes, produces and directs science and entertainment programs, web content and edits books.

Feferman is a Guggenheim Fellow and Sundance award-winning filmmaker.

Francis Ford Coppola and Fred Roos produced her feature film, Seven Minutes In Heaven, starring Jennifer Connelly and Maddie Corman, for Zoetrope and Warner Brothers Studios. Seven Minutes won the Sundance Film Festival audience award for Best Youth Comedy. The film was directed by Feferman and written by Jane Bernstein and Linda Feferman.

Also in entertainment, Feferman produced and directed the GRAMMY nominated music video album for Columbia recording artist James McMurtry; the award winning short, Who Ordered Tax? (a documentary on Jackie Bright, an aging comedian struggling to make his last appearance); and Elizabeth Swados: The Girl with the Incredible Feeling on the renowned theater composer, director, and writer.

After Seven Minutes, Feferman relocated to Los Angeles from New York City and began a parallel career in writing, producing and directing PBS science documentaries. She was nominated for an EMMY for her episode of The Astronomers, which dealt with gravity waves, a corollary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.

Also in science, she directed and produced the 2-hour Timothy Ferris national PBS series, Life Beyond Earth; a season of the Robert Lawrence Kuhn PBS talk show, Closer To Truth (a 15-part series that brought together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate the latest discoveries and their impact on the human condition); and segments for Wired Science, a collaborative series between PBS and Wired magazine.

Feferman became interested in the science of complex adaptive systems in the late 1980’s when a father of complexity science, Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann, invited her to make a film about the Santa Fe Institute, an organization set up exclusively to study the science of complex adaptive systems. Feferman then moved to Santa Fe for the next decade, continuing to make films about the ideas and models worked on by the Institute’s scientists.

Feferman is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, and Women in Film.

Recently, she edited Carrie White’s memoir, Uppercut: Highlights of My Hollywood Life, which was published in September, 2011, by Simon & Schuster. She is editing a mystery novel, The Most Dangerous Summer, by Professor Barbara J. Nelson of the UCLA School of Public Affairs.

Feferman supplied content and design plans for the Closer To Truth website, for the PBS website, Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State, and made the home page video for the MIT/Harvard Image and Meaning 2 Conference.

She has received 21 grants and fellowships throughout her career, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship to live and work in Japan. Billboard Magazine lauded her educational short, Missing: What to Do if Your Child Disappears as "an imperative video that succeeds brilliantly.”