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An Altacliff Film, A Globalvision Production, A Danny Schechter Dissection

A Globalvision Production shot in New York City; Rochester, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.;
Wilmington, Del.; Washington D.C.; and Norfolk, Va.

Executive Producers
Steve Green and Rory O'Connor

Written, produced, and directed by
News Dissector Danny Schechter for Globalvision Inc.

Editorial Adviser
Robert Manning, author of Credit Card Nation

Edited by
Linda Hattendorf, Tribeca Film Festival Prize winner

Shot in HD by Academy Award winner Garry Griffin.
Executive in charge of Production: Rory O’Connor
Original music by Polar Levine/Polarity 1, Clifford Tasner, and Nenad Bach.

Danny Schechter is a television producer and independent filmmaker who also writes and speaks about media issues. He is the author of "Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception: How the Media Failed to Cover the Iraq War" (Prometheus Books, October 2003); "Media Wars: News At A Time of Terror (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); "The More You Watch, The Less You Know" (Seven Stories Press) and "News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics" (Akashic) Books and Electron Press). He is the executive editor of MediaChannel.org, the world's largest online media issues network, and recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists' 2001 Award for Excellence in Documentary Journalism.

He has produced and directed many TV specials and documentary films, including "WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception" (2004), "Counting on Democracy" about the electoral fiasco in Florida narrated by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee; the post 9-11 film We Are Family" (2002) shown at the Sundance Film Festival; "Nkosi: A Voice of Africa's AIDS Orphans" (2001) narrated by Danny Glover; "A Hero for All: Nelson Mandela's Farewell" (l999); "Beyond Life: Timothy Leary Lives" (1997); "Sowing Seeds/Reaping Peace: The World of Seeds of Peace" (1996); "Prisoners of Hope: Reunion on Robben Island" (1995, co-directed by Barbara Kopple); "Countdown to Freedom: Ten Days that Changed South Africa" (1994), narrated by James Earl Jones and Alfre Woodard; "Sarajevo Ground Zero" (1993); "The Living Canvas" (1992), narrated by Billy Dee Williams; "Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy" (1992, co-directed by Marc Levin and Barbara Kopple); "Give Peace a Chance" (1991); "Mandela in America" (1990); "The Making of Sun City" (1987); and "Student Power" (1968).

Schechter is co-founder and executive producer of Globalvision, a New York-based television and film production company now in its 16th year. He founded and exec-produced the series "South Africa Now" and co-produced "Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television. He has specialized in investigative reporting and producing programming about the interface between human rights, journalism, popular music and society. His career began as the "News Dissector" at Boston's leading rock station, WBCN. Later, Schechter was a producer for ABC NEWS 20/20. He produced 50 segments for ABC and won two national Emmys and was nominated or two others.
A Cornell University graduate, he received his Master's degree from the London School of Economics, and an honorary doctorate from Fitchburg College. He was a Neiman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard, where he also taught in 1969. After college, he was a full time civil rights worker and then communications director of the Northern Student Movement, and worked as a community organizer in a Saul Alinsky-style War on Poverty program. Then, moving from the streets to the suites, Schechter served as an assistant to the Mayor of Detroit in 1966 on a Ford Foundation grant.

Schechter joined the start-up staff at CNN as a producer based in Atlanta. He then moved to ABC as a producer for 20/20. Schechter has reported from 49 countries and lectured at many schools and universities. He was an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Schechter's writing has appeared in leading newspapers and magazines including the The Nation, Newsday, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Media Studies Journal, Detroit Free Press, Village Voice, Tikkun, Z, and many others.

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Danny Schechter can be reached at dissector@mediachannel.org

Steven Green divides his time equally between his real estate development company, charitable work, and entertainment-related pursuits.

Green Realty Development Company was started in 1981 and specializes in the architecturally sensitive renovation of apartment communities located throughout the country. A so-called Òrenovation activist" Steve tackles the tough projects that other developers shy away from.Ê The company employs 200+ people and maintains over 7,000 units of housing, mostly in the southeast United States.

Steve is extremely active in charitable work. For 10 years he has supported (and is a Board Member of) The Shield Institute, which benefits autistic and developmentally disabled New Yorkers. On Nantucket (where he currently serves as Madaquecham Trustee) he serves on the Board of the Nantucket AIDS Network and is a long supporter of the Nantucket Historic Association. Steve also serves on the Board of Empire State Pride Agenda, and is a major donor to several other organizations including the Boys and Girls Clubs, Seeds of Peace, and the Safe at Home Foundation - protecting youth in troubled homes.

Steve Green's Altacliff Entertainment is pleased to have supported in part Danny Schechter's film Weapons of Mass Deception. And in addition to acting as Executive Producer of In Debt We Trust, Steve is producing the revival of Ira Levin's Deathtrap, opening on Broadway in January 2007.

Steve lives in Westchester with his two dogs, Herschel and Meyer, and maintains residences in New York City, Florida and Nantucket.