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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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