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maureen mcnamara

boston, ma

producer/director

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Biography: Maureen McNamara is an award winning film and television producer and director with over twenty years experience. As Senior Vice President of Television Production and Programming for the J-Net Group, Inc. Maureen produced the ten part series “Earth Rescue” for the Outdoor Life Network from locations around the world. She is a producer of much of the Ecology Channel’s programming including the “EcoView” and “EcoForum” Series. Ms. McNamara has worked as a field producer for the Discovery Channel and for Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award winning “The Last Days” (Best Feature Documentary 1998). She is the winner of The American Film Festival and The Native American Film Festival for her PBS documentary “Mashpee” which is now part of the Smithsonian Institute’s permanent collection. Ms. McNamara has produced many innovative documentaries for cultural groups such as The Institute for Contemporary Art, The American Repertory Theater and The Poet’s Theater. She has produced music videos for MTV artists including The Grateful Dead and Don Henley and her Go-Go’s video was prominently featured in VH1’s recent “Behind the Music” special. She was Assistant Director / Producer for the dramatic film series “Prisoners of Childhood” for Channel Four, London, U.K. She was C-SPAN’s New England Producer for 18 years, covering four presidential elections. As a videographer for Steven Spielbergs’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation she has recorded nearly 100 testimonials. Recent projects include a series on Teens and HIV funded by Cable Positive, producing for the CN8-TV series “American Builder” and national commercials for AT&T. Producer/Director “The Green Square Mile: Story of the Charlestown Irish” 2007 Associate Producer “Seeking 1906” PBS 2006 Senior Producer “Life Without Life: The Edge of the Gulf” and “Deep East” Feature Programs for Ecology Channel, 2001 Associate Producer “Cinema Secrets” Feature for American Movie Classics, 2001 Associate Producer “Space Medicine” and “Parallel Lines” Feature programs for The Discovery Channel, 2000 Producer, Director, Writer, Camera “Earth Rescue” Series for Outdoor Life Network, 1998 – 2000 Producer, Director, Writer, Camera “EcoView” Series for The Ecology Channel, 1997 – 1999 Field Producer “The Last Days” Produced by Steven Spielberg. Winner Academy Award Best Feature Documentary, 1998 Editor "Rainforests: Proving Their Worth" PBS, 1990 Producer "Soviet Conceptual Art” and “The Situationists” Experimental documentary series for Institute of Contemporary Art Boston & London, 1990 Producer, Director, Writer, Editor "Mashpee" PBS American Film Festival, Native American Film Festival, 1985 Editor "Lulu in Berlin" 16mm film PBS, German, British and Australian television, 1983 Assistant Editor "Eight Minutes to Midnight" 16mm Academy award nominee Best Feature Documentary, 1982