SHEILA CURRAN BERNARD
Director of Media Programs
Sheila Curran Bernard, Director of Media Programs for the Writers Institute, is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning media professional with experience developing, producing, and consulting on projects for national and international broadcast, theatrical release, and museum and classroom use. She specializes in applying dramatic storytelling techniques to documentary material, and is the author of Documentary Storytelling (Focal Press/Elsevier, second edition 2007), a unique guide used by students and filmmakers worldwide. A second volume, Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music (Bernard and Kenn Rabin, Focal Press), is due out in September.
Bernard has received the following awards for her work in film:
Emmy: Outstanding Individual Achievement/Writing
* 1990, “Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More” (Eyes on the Prize, PBS series)
George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism
* 1999, I'll Make Me A World, A Century of African-American Arts (PBS)
* 1990, Eyes on the Prize (PBS)
Eric Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians
* 1996, America’s War on Poverty (PBS)
* 1990, Eyes on the Prize
Cine Golden Eagle
* 2001, School: The Story of American Public Education (PBS)
* 1990, “Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More” (Eyes on the Prize, PBS series)
* 1983, The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific
She has taught at Princeton University (Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies, fall 2005) and Westbrook College (Dorothy M. Healy Visiting Professor, spring 1995), and lectured at Harvard’s Nieman Narrative Conference and elsewhere.
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