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Academy-award winning filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond have produced feature
length documentaries for Public Television, ABC News, HBO, Disney Channel and
the BBC in England. Their most recently completed documentary is Children in
War, a feature length study of the tragic consequences of war and terrorism
for the children of Bosnia, Israel, Rwanda and Northern Ireland. It will premiere
on Home Box Office in January 2000. The Raymonds' previous film, I
Am A Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School, chronicled a year
in the life of a troubled inner-city elementary school in North Philadelphia.
This film has been honored with an Oscar for Best Feature Documentary l993, a
Prime Time Emmy Award for Outstanding Information Special, a George Foster Peabody
Award, an Alfred I. DuPont Award from the Columbia School of Journalism and a
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for First Prize in Television Reporting.
The Raymonds specialize in long form social issue documentaries. They have
produced films on education and schooling, mental illness, policing in America,
juvenile justice, prison reform, the British Army and the IRA in Northern Ireland
as well as historical documentaries on the urban blues music of Chicago and the
early days of rock and roll with Elvis Presley. The Raymonds were also the film
makers of the seminal 12 hour cinema verité PBS documentary series An
American Family. Many of the Raymonds' films are in the permanent
collections of museums and public libraries, such as the Museum of Modern Art
and the Museum of Broadcasting in New York City as well as the Bibliotheque National
in Paris. In 1995, the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles held a retrospective
screening of the Raymonds' films.
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