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Ellen Schnieder
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Executive Director, Active Voice |
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Advisory Board Member |
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Ellen Schneider is founder and executive director of Active Voice, a nationally recognized team of strategic communication specialists that puts socially relevant film to work for personal and institutional change in communities, workplaces, and campuses across America. Active Voice works on multiple levels: online campaigns; theatrical releases; broadcasts (including PBS, DiscoveryTimes and Court TV); and in scores of community-based settings around the country.
Previously Schneider was executive producer of the PBS documentary series, P.O.V., where she developed High Impact Television, a technique for creating links between documentaries, individuals, grassroots organizations and other media. With funding from the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Surdna Foundation, Schneider then created the Television Race Initiative, recognized as a "promising practice" by President Clinton's Initiative on Race. She was also the creator and executive producer of Right Here, Right Now, PBS' first video diary series.
Schneider was a member of the start-up team for ITVS and has served on juries ranging from the Sundance Film Festival to RioCine. in Brazil. She’s worked as a Hollywood-based story analyst, associate producer and production manager for low budget independent feature films and original television movies. |
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