Producers/Directors

Ivan Kronenfeld, Authorized Principal of the Company and Koerner Kronenfeld Partners, LLC. Mr. Kronenfeld has over 30 years of experience in the dramatic arts, entertainment academia and other businesses. He is an accomplished producer, director, actor and teacher, and has pioneered such as the Broadway-bound opera/musical production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Carl Koerner, Authorized Principal of the Company and Koerner Kronenfeld Partners, LLC. Mr. Koerner is senior partner of Koerner Silberberg & Weiner, LLP, a corporate law firm in New York City. Mr. Koerner has more than 25 years experience in venture capital and business development, finance, acquisitions and mergers, public securities offerings and private placements. He also has experience in both legal and business aspects of publishing, theater, television and other entertainment related projects.

Thomas H. Guinzburg, Senior Publishing Consultant to the Company [Director of Publishing?]. Mr. Guinzburg’s impressive accomplishments in publishing span almost half a century. He was a Founding Editor of The Paris Review in 1952, President of The Viking Press from 1961 to 1975, and of Viking–Penguin from 1975 to 1979. Mr. Guinzburg was also Chairman of The American Book Awards 1982–1983, Senior Consultant to Doubleday & Company (1985–1986), and Publishing Consultant to The Turner Broadcasting System (1989–1991). Mr. Guinzburg currently serves as Governor, Yale University Press; Director and Executive Committee Member, Citizens Committee for New York City; Vice-Chairman, The Dream Team, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Executive Committee and Sponsor, I Have a Dream Foundation; Vice-Chairman, Council of Branch Libraries, New York Public Library; Presidents Council, Memorial Sloan-Kettering; Founding Member, Special Projects Committee, Memorial Sloan-Kettering; and Society Nominating Committee, Memorial Sloan-Kettering. His major past affiliations include Director, American Book Publishers Council, from 1965 to 1970, and Co-Chairman, Council of the New York Public Library, from 1973 to 1977. Mr. Guinzburg spent two years in the U.S. Marine Corps, was a recipient of the Purple Heart, and graduated from Yale University in 1950 where he was Managing Editor of The Yale Daily News.

Robert Cowley, Editor. Mr. Cowley is one of America’s leading military historians. He is the founding editor and former editor-in-chief of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. Mr. Cowley was editor as well as a contributor to What If?: The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, published in 1999.

Stan Moger. Mr. Moger is the President and CEO of SFM Entertainnment, L.L.C., a company he co-founded 30 years ago. SFM is responsible for sales of time contained in advertiser supplied programming to network, cable and local markets, as well as providing a total packaging facility including cassettes, location production and promotion. SFM has pioneered different media vehicles for a variety of advertisers that has given the company and Mr. Moger the reputation of being one of the innovative people/companies in the advertising/programming business.

Gary Smith. Mr. Smith is a producer/director who has worked in television for the past 30 years. He was the director of ABC 2000, a monumental undertaking which spotlighted millennium celebrations from Sydney to New York City. Together with his partner Dwight Hemion, Smith-Hemion is responsible for such programs as the unveiling of the restored Statue of Liberty, as well as six specials with Barbara Streisand. The Smith-Hermion team has won an unprecedented 24 Emmy Awards. Smith produced many high profile television programs including Paul McCartney's only television show, Elvis Presley's last, Bette Midler's first and Bing Crosby's last. He was executive producer of five Tony Awards telecasts 1993 - 1997. Mr. Smith was also responsible for the production of the Democratic Convention in 1988, 1992 1996 and 2000, President Reagan's Inaugural Gala in 1985, and President Clinton's Inaugural Gala in 1993 and 1997. He has produced four years of Emmys, three years of People's Choice Awards, four years of AFI "100 Years" specials, Command Performance Specials for the Queen of England as well as productions for Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti, the Apollo, Woody Allen and Radio City Music Hall, among others.

Harrison Engel. Mr. Engel has produced and directed many nationally recognized dramatic and documentary productions. Recent credits include a survey of the great Hollywood war films, War and Peace (TNT, “AFI’s 100 Years...100 Movies”), a documentary special about the restoration of the Hitchcock classic, Obsessed with Vertigo (AMC), and a one hour biography, Moshe Dayan: A Warrior’s Story (A&E). His multi-award-winning feature documentary, The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt (ABC Network/A&E/History Channel) was critically acclaimed and named “one of the best programs of the year” by the New York Times and Washington Post.

Bud Greenspan has been called the foremost writer/producer/director of sports films and one of the world's leading sports historians. He has been recognized throughout the world for his lifetime body of work and commitment to capturing the humanity of sport on film, most notably receiving a George Foster Peabody Award, the broadcast and cable industry’s most prestigious honor. He has also been honored with Lifetime Achievement awards from the Directors Guild of America, the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Track & Field Association. His films have received seven Emmy Awards and he was recently inducted into the Silver Circle of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Richard Shickel. Richard Schickel, one of the nation's most influential film critics, has been reviewing movies for TIME Magazine since 1972 and prior to that had a position at LIFE Magazine. Schickel is also a noted producer and director of television programs, beginning with "The Men Who Made Movies", an eight-part PBS series, which was the basis for a book of the same title. His other works include "Life Goes to the Movies", a three-hour history of American movies in the sound era; "Funny Business" and the "Horror Show", genre compilations broadcast on CBS; "Into the Morning : Willa Cather's American," a biography of the writer for PBS; and biographical portraits of Vincente Minelli, the director (PBS), Gary Cooper, Myrna Loy and Barbara Stanwyck (all for TNT). More recently Shickel produced a documentary on the making of Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" for ABC and "Hollywood on Hollywood", a history of movies about making movies for AMC. He just finished "Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey", a retrospective of the director's theater and film career.

CBS News Productions. CBS News Productions is the production company branch of CBS News that provides a broad range of original nonfiction programs to national and foreign audiences in the form of network television, cable television, home video, CD-ROM, and audio books. Past projects of CBS News Productions have included “Countdown to the Grammys,” “A Century of Country,” “Vital Breakthroughs,” “Discover Health News” minutes and “This Week in History.” Currently CBS News Productions is involved in the production of “Survivor: Back From the Outback,” “CBS New HealthWatch,” “The 20th Century with Mike Wallace,” and many other network and cable productions. CBS News Productions won a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Spoken Word Album for “Charles Kuralt’s Spring,” a collaboration with Simon & Schuster and have been nominated for numerous Emmy and CableACE Awards..


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