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Karen
Bernstein
RECENT FILM/ VIDEO/ RADIO PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE:
- Sept. 2004 Producer, Troop 1500 (ITVS)
- June, 2004 Producer/ Director,
Are The Kids Alright?
(PBS)
- June, 2004 Producer/ Director,
Queen of My Room/ Marfa, TX
(Gallery HD)
- January, 2003 Producer, Sundance Channel spots, various
- 2003 Producer, Texas Monthly Talks (PBS/ Texas Monthly magazine)
- May, 2002 Producer/ Director,
Meet Mike Mills (Sundance Channel)
screened at The New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center,
2002
- July, 1999 –
present Director, PopAction (Mobilus Media)
- December, 2001 –
present Director, The Wrestling Party (HBO – Real Sex)
- January, 2001 –
present Producer, Atomic Ed & The Black Hole (HBO)
- January – April,
2001 Series Producer, Boing TV ! The Idea Show (PBS)
- April, 1993 – January, 2001 – Series
Producer, AMERICAN MASTERS,
Thirteen/ WNET, PBS series of American arts and culture biography
- January, 2001 – Producer,
AMERICAN MASTERS/ Juilliard (national airdate – Jan., 2003)
- September, 2000 – Producer, AMERICAN MASTERS/ Clint Eastwood – Out
of the Shadows (national airdate
– Fall, 2000)
- May, 2000 – Correspondent, THIS AMERICAN LIFE/ Public Radio International,
“Mob Mentality” producer: Alex Blumberg
- December, 1999 - Producer, AMERICAN MASTERS – Ella
Fitzgerald – Something
To Live For (national airdate:
December, 1999/ nominated for a Grammy award – Best Long Form
Music Video)
- March, 1997 – April, 1998 Co-Producer, AMERICAN MASTERS - Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart, national airdate: April, 1998 / extensive international festival
run including Sundance International Film Festival ’98 and the
Berlin International Film Festival ‘98
- December, 1995 - November, 1996 Co-Producer, AMERICAN MASTERS - Lena Horne: In Her Own
Voice, national airdate:
November, 1996
- April, 1994 - April, 1995 Associate Producer, AMERICAN MASTERS - Richard Avedon: Darkness
and Light, national airdate:
January, 1996
HONORS/ AWARDS OF NOTE:
Lone
Star Emmy nomination, Texas Monthly Talks: Nellie Connally
Texas Mental
Health Assn. Award: Are
The Kids Alright?
PopACTION – portrait of a renegade dancer invited to IFP
Market, NYC
Grammy Award
nomination Ella Fitzgerald
– Something To Live For
Emmy Award for
Best Non-Fiction series AMERICAN
MASTERS
Grammy Award
for Best Long Form Video: Lou
Reed- Rock And Roll Heart
Sundance, Berlin,
Jerusalem documentary competitions: Lou Reed- Rock and Roll Heart
Audience Award,
Hamptons International Film Festival: Richard Avedon-Darkness and
Light
AFFILIATIONS:
Austin Film Society (Board Member since 2003),
Association of Independent Film and Video Makers (AIFV), International
Documentary Association
EDUCATION:
Yale
University, through 1982
Fairfield
University, 1981-82
New
York University School of the Arts, 1979-1980
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