Julia Newman
Producer and Director
Julia Newman was the Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives for 5 years between 2002 and 2007. Her connection to the Spanish Civil War began with her parents. Political activists in Brooklyn in the 1930s, they had friends who served with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
A senior television producer in advertising for over twenty years, Ms Newman worked on both commercials and long form promotional pieces for many national and local advertisers. Working as a journalist, she has written investigative and feature articles for U.S. magazines and newspapers, including The New York Daily News, The Miami Herald, Metropolitan Home and Travel and Leisure. She studied theatre at Brooklyn College and acting at the HB Studio with the late William Hickey.
Ms Newman produced a theatrical short, The Violin Lesson. She researched, developed and produced and directed the documentary, Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War, over a ten year period. Into the Fire is her first directing credit.
Her most recent documentary released in 2020, Still a Revolutionary: Albert Einstein, tells the story of the great scientist as a political and social activist.
Gary Sharfin
Co-Producer
Co-Producer and Editor Gary Sharfin includes among his feature credits as editor, Just Off the Coast, shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991, Denise Calls Up, which received Honorable Mention for the Camera D'Or at Cannes in 1995 and His and Hers, shown at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. He has directed and edited a series of one hour jazz shows for Japanese television and many music videos and television commercials for the U.S.
In 2004 he executive produced the feature film Evergreen, also shown at Sundance Film Festival.
Peter Miller
Co-Producer
Peter Miller is an Emmy and Peabody-award winning filmmaker whose documentaries have screened in cinemas and on television throughout the world. His films include A.K.A. Doc Pomus (about the legendary songwriter), Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (narrated by Dustin Hoffman), and Sacco and Vanzetti (winner of the American Historical Association's best film award). With Carlos Sandoval, he made A Class Apart for PBS’s American Experience, now being adapted as a feature film executive produced by Eva Longoria. His musical film The Internationale was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination. His documentary Projections of America, about a WWII propaganda film unit, was shown nationally on PBS stations, as were his two collaborations with filmmaker Renée Silverman, Sosua: Make a Better World and Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes On the World. Peter co-directed Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices, about the celebrated conductor, winner of three Emmy Awards, for PBS American Masters. He co-wrote and produced Ken Rosenberg’s BEDLAM, about the crisis in care for people with severe mental illness, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, aired on PBS Independent Lens, and is a 2021 duPont-Columbia Award finalist. With his daughter Nora Claire Miller, he recently released Egg Cream, a short film about the beloved chocolate soda drink.
Peter is currently collaborating with filmmakers Peggy Stern and Justin Schein on Do No Harm, a documentary series about the Palliative Care movement in medicine, and is directing and producing Marcella, a biography of the legendary food writer, Marcella Hazan.
Peter has been a producer on numerous documentaries by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, including the PBS series The War and Jazz, as well as the Peabody Award-winning Frank Lloyd Wright. He has served in producing roles on landmark documentaries including The Uprising of '34, Passin' It On, the Academy Award-winning American Dream, and many other celebrated films. He works regularly as a script consultant, writer, and music supervisor.
Willow Pond Films website: willowpondfilms.com
Julia Newman
Producer and Director
Julia Newman was the Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives for 5 years between 2002 and 2007. Her connection to the Spanish Civil War began with her parents. Political activists in Brooklyn in the 1930s, they had friends who served with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
A senior television producer in advertising for over twenty years, Ms Newman worked on both commercials and long form promotional pieces for many national and local advertisers. Working as a journalist, she has written investigative and feature articles for U.S. magazines and newspapers, including The New York Daily News, The Miami Herald, Metropolitan Home and Travel and Leisure. She studied theatre at Brooklyn College and acting at the HB Studio with the late William Hickey.
Ms Newman produced a theatrical short, The Violin Lesson. She researched, developed and produced and directed the documentary, Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War, over a ten year period. Into the Fire is her first directing credit.
Her most recent documentary released in 2020, Still a Revolutionary: Albert Einstein, tells the story of the great scientist as a political and social activist.
Gary Sharfin
Co-Producer
Co-Producer and Editor Gary Sharfin includes among his feature credits as editor, Just Off the Coast, shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991, Denise Calls Up, which received Honorable Mention for the Camera D'Or at Cannes in 1995 and His and Hers, shown at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. He has directed and edited a series of one hour jazz shows for Japanese television and many music videos and television commercials for the U.S.
In 2004 he executive produced the feature film Evergreen, also shown at Sundance Film Festival.
Peter Miller
Co-Producer
Peter Miller is an Emmy and Peabody-award winning filmmaker whose documentaries have screened in cinemas and on television throughout the world. His films include A.K.A. Doc Pomus (about the legendary songwriter), Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (narrated by Dustin Hoffman), and Sacco and Vanzetti (winner of the American Historical Association's best film award). With Carlos Sandoval, he made A Class Apart for PBS’s American Experience, now being adapted as a feature film executive produced by Eva Longoria. His musical film The Internationale was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination. His documentary Projections of America, about a WWII propaganda film unit, was shown nationally on PBS stations, as were his two collaborations with filmmaker Renée Silverman, Sosua: Make a Better World and Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes On the World. Peter co-directed Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices, about the celebrated conductor, winner of three Emmy Awards, for PBS American Masters. He co-wrote and produced Ken Rosenberg’s BEDLAM, about the crisis in care for people with severe mental illness, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, aired on PBS Independent Lens, and is a 2021 duPont-Columbia Award finalist. With his daughter Nora Claire Miller, he recently released Egg Cream, a short film about the beloved chocolate soda drink.
Peter is currently collaborating with filmmakers Peggy Stern and Justin Schein on Do No Harm, a documentary series about the Palliative Care movement in medicine, and is directing and producing Marcella, a biography of the legendary food writer, Marcella Hazan.
Peter has been a producer on numerous documentaries by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, including the PBS series The War and Jazz, as well as the Peabody Award-winning Frank Lloyd Wright. He has served in producing roles on landmark documentaries including The Uprising of '34, Passin' It On, the Academy Award-winning American Dream, and many other celebrated films. He works regularly as a script consultant, writer, and music supervisor.
Willow Pond Films website: willowpondfilms.com
Julia Newman
Producer and Director
Julia Newman was the Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives for 5 years between 2002 and 2007. Her connection to the Spanish Civil War began with her parents. Political activists in Brooklyn in the 1930s, they had friends who served with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
A senior television producer in advertising for over twenty years, Ms Newman worked on both commercials and long form promotional pieces for many national and local advertisers. Working as a journalist, she has written investigative and feature articles for U.S. magazines and newspapers, including The New York Daily News, The Miami Herald, Metropolitan Home and Travel and Leisure. She studied theatre at Brooklyn College and acting at the HB Studio with the late William Hickey.
Ms Newman produced a theatrical short, The Violin Lesson. She researched, developed and produced and directed the documentary, Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War, over a ten year period. Into the Fire is her first directing credit.
Her most recent documentary released in 2020, Still a Revolutionary: Albert Einstein, tells the story of the great scientist as a political and social activist.
Gary Sharfin
Co-Producer
Co-Producer and Editor Gary Sharfin includes among his feature credits as editor, Just Off the Coast, shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991, Denise Calls Up, which received Honorable Mention for the Camera D'Or at Cannes in 1995 and His and Hers, shown at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. He has directed and edited a series of one hour jazz shows for Japanese television and many music videos and television commercials for the U.S.
In 2004 he executive produced the feature film Evergreen, also shown at Sundance Film Festival.
Peter Miller
Co-Producer
Peter Miller is an Emmy and Peabody-award winning filmmaker whose documentaries have screened in cinemas and on television throughout the world. His films include A.K.A. Doc Pomus (about the legendary songwriter), Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (narrated by Dustin Hoffman), and Sacco and Vanzetti (winner of the American Historical Association's best film award). With Carlos Sandoval, he made A Class Apart for PBS’s American Experience, now being adapted as a feature film executive produced by Eva Longoria. His musical film The Internationale was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination. His documentary Projections of America, about a WWII propaganda film unit, was shown nationally on PBS stations, as were his two collaborations with filmmaker Renée Silverman, Sosua: Make a Better World and Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes On the World. Peter co-directed Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices, about the celebrated conductor, winner of three Emmy Awards, for PBS American Masters. He co-wrote and produced Ken Rosenberg’s BEDLAM, about the crisis in care for people with severe mental illness, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, aired on PBS Independent Lens, and is a 2021 duPont-Columbia Award finalist. With his daughter Nora Claire Miller, he recently released Egg Cream, a short film about the beloved chocolate soda drink.
Peter is currently collaborating with filmmakers Peggy Stern and Justin Schein on Do No Harm, a documentary series about the Palliative Care movement in medicine, and is directing and producing Marcella, a biography of the legendary food writer, Marcella Hazan.
Peter has been a producer on numerous documentaries by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, including the PBS series The War and Jazz, as well as the Peabody Award-winning Frank Lloyd Wright. He has served in producing roles on landmark documentaries including The Uprising of '34, Passin' It On, the Academy Award-winning American Dream, and many other celebrated films. He works regularly as a script consultant, writer, and music supervisor.
Willow Pond Films website: willowpondfilms.com
Julia Newman
Producer and Director
Julia Newman was the Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives for 5 years between 2002 and 2007. Her connection to the Spanish Civil War began with her parents. Political activists in Brooklyn in the 1930s, they had friends who served with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
A senior television producer in advertising for over twenty years, Ms Newman worked on both commercials and long form promotional pieces for many national and local advertisers. Working as a journalist, she has written investigative and feature articles for U.S. magazines and newspapers, including The New York Daily News, The Miami Herald, Metropolitan Home and Travel and Leisure. She studied theatre at Brooklyn College and acting at the HB Studio with the late William Hickey.
Ms Newman produced a theatrical short, The Violin Lesson. She researched, developed and produced and directed the documentary, Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War, over a ten year period. Into the Fire is her first directing credit.
Her most recent documentary released in 2020, Still a Revolutionary: Albert Einstein, tells the story of the great scientist as a political and social activist.
Gary Sharfin
Co-Producer
Co-Producer and Editor Gary Sharfin includes among his feature credits as editor, Just Off the Coast, shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991, Denise Calls Up, which received Honorable Mention for the Camera D'Or at Cannes in 1995 and His and Hers, shown at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. He has directed and edited a series of one hour jazz shows for Japanese television and many music videos and television commercials for the U.S.
In 2004 he executive produced the feature film Evergreen, also shown at Sundance Film Festival.
Peter Miller
Co-Producer
Peter Miller is an Emmy and Peabody-award winning filmmaker whose documentaries have screened in cinemas and on television throughout the world. His films include A.K.A. Doc Pomus (about the legendary songwriter), Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (narrated by Dustin Hoffman), and Sacco and Vanzetti (winner of the American Historical Association's best film award). With Carlos Sandoval, he made A Class Apart for PBS’s American Experience, now being adapted as a feature film executive produced by Eva Longoria. His musical film The Internationale was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination. His documentary Projections of America, about a WWII propaganda film unit, was shown nationally on PBS stations, as were his two collaborations with filmmaker Renée Silverman, Sosua: Make a Better World and Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes On the World. Peter co-directed Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices, about the celebrated conductor, winner of three Emmy Awards, for PBS American Masters. He co-wrote and produced Ken Rosenberg’s BEDLAM, about the crisis in care for people with severe mental illness, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, aired on PBS Independent Lens, and is a 2021 duPont-Columbia Award finalist. With his daughter Nora Claire Miller, he recently released Egg Cream, a short film about the beloved chocolate soda drink.
Peter is currently collaborating with filmmakers Peggy Stern and Justin Schein on Do No Harm, a documentary series about the Palliative Care movement in medicine, and is directing and producing Marcella, a biography of the legendary food writer, Marcella Hazan.
Peter has been a producer on numerous documentaries by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, including the PBS series The War and Jazz, as well as the Peabody Award-winning Frank Lloyd Wright. He has served in producing roles on landmark documentaries including The Uprising of '34, Passin' It On, the Academy Award-winning American Dream, and many other celebrated films. He works regularly as a script consultant, writer, and music supervisor.
Willow Pond Films website: willowpondfilms.com
