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New York-based Paradox Communications creates Emmy Award winning nonfiction television programming -- from traditional documentaries and news reports, to narrative driven “real-life” stories and magazine-show segments.
Programming developed and produced for PBS (PBS NewsHour, INNOVATION, China Now), ABC (Good Morning America), CBS (60 Minutes), Discovery (Spacewalkers, Cathedrals of the Sky) and HBO (Diary of a Red Planet). Digital Content created for major corporate, educational, non-profit, and faith-based clients. Its most recent film -- Unsettled History: America, China and the Doolittle Tokyo Raid -- was seen on 250+ Public TV stations, as well as on Public Television’s WORLD Channel.
Wrote and supervised production of the international version of Century Masters, a 10-part Chinese cultural history series. Those profiled included artists, composers, performers, a legendary writer and a groundbreaking theater director. The series was distributed in English, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and French, and seen on broadcast, cable and digital platforms. It was hosted by Series Producer Bill Einreinhofer.
Created Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began, documentary exploring how the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 marked the start of what would eventually become World War II. Broadcast on 200+ American Public Television stations starting in November 2018, it was seen on 200+ TV stations in the United States. It was also licensed to broadcasters in Europe, and is available on VOD services including Amazon Prime and Magellan TV.
Created People in Motion, the first prime time documentary series in U.S. television history to deal with disability. Hosted by Itzhak Perlman and Marlee Matlin, the six one-hour programs examined how technology can be used as a form of empowerment for people with physical and cognitive disabilities. Among those profiled is a legendary disability-rights activist, a “blind” photographer and a profoundly deaf classical musician.
Series Production of Beyond Beijing. This four-part documentary series, broadcast in 43 countries and seen by 250+ million viewers, was tied to 2008 Summer Olympics. The series explored the history, culture and lifestyles of the six Chinese cities “beyond Beijing” that hosted events tied to the 2008 Olympic. The series is full of surprises about places in China viewers either don’t know or only thought they knew…
Participated in a wide range of international co-productions, partnering with the ABC (Australia), Globo (Brazil), SMG (China), ZDF (Germany), SVT (Sweden) and United Nations Television. Worked with international co-production partners on Invisible Love, an award-winning independent feature film. During the 1930’s, in what was then called French Indochina, a young woman looking only for love and acceptance is repeatedly betrayed by the men in her life. In the end, the one man who truly loves her tragically delays expressing his feelings, until it is too late. Shot entirely on location in Vietnam, the film won three major awards at the 2021 Paris International Film Festival.