We have the pleasure today to visit with Steve Michelson about “Making Media That Matters.” Steve Michelson is the Executive Producer for The Fund for Sustainable Tomorrows, a 501©3 non-profit specializing in supporting engagement campaigns around cause-related documentaries involving health, social justice, sustainability and the environment.
Two current projects that he is leading are the film Phil’s Camino and the mission to change the standard of care around cancer treatment. The Fund is also managing the engagement around the release of the film 16Bars about the reentry of returning citizens to society from our prison system. Steve’s on line course, in association with Ringling College in Sarasota Florida, for the next generation of documentarians will launch this year as Making Media That Matters.
Michelson has functioned as Executive Producer on many award-winning films including: In Our Own Hands How Patients are Reinventing Medicine, The Third Harmony, Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives, Nature’s Orchestra, Walking in Two Worlds, River of Renewal, Power Paths, Burning the Future, Crude Impact, Oil on Ice and more.
From 2006-2019 Michelson was the Executive Producer at the Video Project, specializing in educational and institutional distribution of documentary films. His production studio operates out of his Ranch in Half Moon Bay, CA. called Lobitos Creek Ranch. It has been redesigned recently to accommodate retreats for organizations and groups that come to strategize on some of the challenging problems society faces.
Michelson was co-founder and president of One Pass, San Francisco’s largest production and post-production studio from 1975-85, before starting his own company in 1986. He is a recipient of the Gilbert Award for outstanding contribution to Northern California’s film community. He has served four terms as a Governor with the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). Steve is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he attended The Annenberg School of Communications and the Wharton School of Business.
For more of my interviews exploring leaders in the entertainment business, make sure to check out my interviews with Glenn Ross, CEO Universal 1440 Entertainment; Scott Ross, VFX Specialist; Glenn Entis, former CEO Dreamworks Interactive; Maureen Fan, CEO Baobab Studios; Gary Gutierez, SFX Specialist; Cynthia Hsiung, Award-Winning Director/producer; and Steve Michelson, Award-winning Documentarian. You can find them all here on my playlist on the KIDS FIRST! YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wr8_OxGxjo&list=PLI6M_JXrd8pguIVQLc3ESsLWmI_-LP1lw
By Gerry O., KIDS FIRST! Film Critic, age 17
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