Films
COLOSSUS FILM
A Campanario Entertainment Film
Director/Producer
Jamil Sunsin is the only person in his family born in the U.S. His parents and sister came from Honduras and lived in the U.S. for a decade before Jamil’s father was arrested for being undocumented. The entire family was forced to return to Honduras, a country wracked with violence.
After a knife attack, Jamil is traumatized, and becomes terrified to leave home. The family makes an excruciating choice to send him back to the U.S. Now 15, Jamil tries to survive without his family and fights against a broken immigration system.
Back in Honduras, his sister Mirka, who would’ve been eligible for DACA had she remained in the US, struggles to adapt, hoping to someday reunite with Jamil. This intimate portrait is a rare look into the aftermath of deportation and family separation, amidst the current backlash against America’s immigrants.
MIGRANT CROSSING
The New York Times
Senior Producer
There is a crisis unfolding at the border — but it’s not the ” invasion” that President Trump would have you believe. Every day, migrants lost in the borderland deserts call 911 in the hopes of avoiding the gruesome fate of thousands of crossers before them. To help save lives, volunteer groups leave water and food along known migrant routes.
In 2017, the federal government started prosecuting these groups. Scott Warren recently went on trial in Arizona, where prosecutors have charged him with a three-count felony of “harboring unauthorized aliens.
Coronavirus: Reopening In a Pandemic
The New York Time
Senior Producer
The restaurant industry is among the most devastated by the pandemic, having lost at least 5.5 million jobs by the end of April. Some estimates suggest 75 percent of independent restaurants may never reopen. Restaurant owner Jenna Aronowitz is determined not to let her business be one of them.
SUBMARINE DIVING WITH GIANT DEEP-SEA SHARKS
Ocean X
Executive Producer
Hundreds of meters below the surface lurks a predator older than the dinosaurs and bigger on average than the great white. This is the story of a group of scientists who came together to achieve the unthinkable: tagging the cryptic bluntnose sixgill #shark in its natural environment using a submarine.
A COLD WAR FAMILY REUNION
Al Jazeera
Director/Producer
Close to the Arctic Circle, lie two remote islands. They are only about four kilometres apart, but they are separated by an invisible border known as the “Ice Curtain”. Little Diomede is part of the United States. Big Diomede is part of Russia. During the Cold War, the Inupiat tribe living on both islands was torn apart.
In 1948, the Soviets moved the residents of Big Diomede to mainland Russia. Their relatives on Little Diomede remained.
Now, more than two decades since their last reunion, Frances Sistook Ozenna, a tribal coordinator on Little Diomede, is attempting to reunite her people with their Russian relatives.
GAME OF CLONES
National Geographic
Director/Producer
Alan Meeker, a successful Texas oil tycoon, has built a horse cloning business that is taking over the professional polo world.
RED NOTICE
Director/Producer
National Geographic Explorer investigates the abuse of Interpol’s highest alert system, known as Red Notices, by countries accused of using it for political purposes.
SUPER POLLUTERS
USA Today | The Weather Channel | Center for Public Integrity
Director/Cinematographer: Jonathan Schienberg
Industrial air pollution — bad for people’s health, bad for the planet — is strikingly concentrated in America among a small number of facilities like those in southwest Indiana, according to a nine-month Center for Public Integrity investigation.
www.superpolluters.com
FUELING THE FIRE
National Geographic
Director/Producer
A clip from the episode “Fueling the Fire” from the documentary series Years of Living Dangerously.
Although military bases on the U.S. are well-located to take advantage of solar power, many a still heavily reliant on fossil fuels. As a result, oil delivery convoys become easy targets for attack. Does it have to be this way? Arnold Schwarzenegger meets with survivors to learn more.
AUTONOMOUS ROAD
National Geographic
Director/Producer
A clip from the episode “The Road Ahead” from the documentary series Years of Living Dangerously.
Cars that can drive themselves are already on the road, with pilot projects of autonomous cars happening around the world. If you live in the U.S., you might have even driven past one without knowing it, because regulations still require someone to sit in the driver’s seat, as Ty Burrell learned in the Years of Living Dangerously story, “The Road Ahead.”
THE ROAD AHEAD
National Geographic
Director/Producer
A clip from the episode “The Road Ahead” from the documentary series Years of Living Dangerously.
Ty Burrell learns about the amazing advances being made in electric vehicles (EVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs). Could these technological advances be part of the solution to climate change?
YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY – FUELING THE FIRE
National Geographic
Director/Producer
A clip from the episode “Fueling the Fire” from the documentary series Years of Living Dangerously.
The episode explores how the military is adapting to climate change and limiting national security risk by increasing energy efficiency and using renewables. In Kuwait, we learn about how fuel convoys are responsible for thousands of US soldier deaths, and how our armed forces are dealing with an increased number of climate-related military conflicts and natural disasters.
Cattle ranching, drought, deforestation, massive hydroelectric dams and illegal mining threaten the Amazon rain forest, which is losing 2 million acres a year to clearing. The degradation of the Amazon accounts for 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than half of which is caused by clearing for cattle ranching.
THE THREAT OF EXILE
Foreign Policy
Director/Producer
Rather than submitting to the Thai military junta, Thailand’s exiled activists and leaders are banding together to carry on the fight for democracy outside their country’s borders.
Director, Producer, DP: Jonathan Schienberg
THAIS IN EXILE: A FILM ON THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM IN THAILAND
Global Reporting Centre
Producer
The GRC is working with Jonathan Schienberg to develop Thais in Exile, a film and multimedia project about the crackdown on dissidents in Thailand, and the largely-unnoticed exodus of activists.
Producer: Jonathan Schienberg
WIKIMANIA
CBS: 60 Minutes
Producer
Meet the Wikipedians. Those “persnickety,” techy types who keep your favorite Internet information website brimming with data
THE FLAVORISTS
CBS: 60 Minutes
Producer
Meet the scientists who create flavors that make foods and beverages so tasty that critics say they’re addictive. Morley Safer reports.
THE CARTOONIST
CBS: 60 Minutes
Producer
New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff lets 60 Minutes cameras into the weekly process of picking the magazine’s famous cartoons.
QUARTERBACK GURU
CBS: 60 Minutes
Producer
Morley Safer interviews the “QB Guru” who says the new norm to get to the NFL as a quarterback starts with a tutor like him training kids as young as 8
HOOKED
CBS: 60 Minutes
Producer
Dr. Nora Volkow, the head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has revolutionized how science and medicine view addiction: as a disease, not a character defect. Morley Safer reports.
IRAN: THE STEM CELL FATWA
PBS Frontline
Director/Producer
While headlines about Iran barely get beyond religious extremism and nuclear bombs, this FRONTLINE/World story reveals that the staunchly conservative theocracy has married science and religion to become a world-class hub for embryonic stem cell research.
A HEALING TOUCH FOR THE HOMELESS
Director/Producer
The New York Times
Homeless New Yorkers gather at two Chelsea churches for adjustments from volunteer chiropractors.
TUNISIA ELECTIONS: THE DIFFICULTIES OF DEMOCRACY
The Huffington Post
Producer
As Tunisia gears up for its first democratic elections this Sunday, its popular emerging political parties, like Afek Tounes, have high hopes for spreading their message far and wide.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-schienberg/tunisia-elections_b_1026509.html
FINDING AN OUTLET IN FOOTBALL AFTER VIOLENCE IN CHAD
UNICEF
Producer/Correspondent
UNICEF correspondent Jonathan Schienberg reports on Mahamat Ali, a 13-year-old footballer whose parents were killed in a coup d’etat in the Central African Republic.
VANGUARD/THE RIGHT TO KILL: STAND YOUR GROUND USA
Current TV
Coordinating Producer
“The Right to Kill: Stand Your Ground USA” explores the controversial “Stand your Ground” self defense laws that have been adopted by nearly half of the states in the nation and the citizens personally affected by the laws. Born out of “Castle Doctrine” Stand Your Ground expanded rights for using deadly force in self defense and was brought to the public’s attention in the aftermath surrounding the death of Trayvon Martin
MARFA, TEXAS: THE CAPITAL OF QUIRKINESS
CBS: 60 Minutes
Producer
Morley Safer finds a rich cultural stew of cowboys and artists mixing it up in a quirky West Texas town in the middle of nowhere
DAVID MCCULLOUGH PROFILE
CBS: 60 Minutes Overtime
An unexpected friendship with David McCullough.CBS: 60 Minutes
Producer
Morley Safer finds a rich cultural stew of cowboys and artists mixing it up in a quirky West Texas town in the middle of nowhere