Philip Gittelman

For over five decades, Philip Gittelman has created and produced award-winning films, videos and television programs for a who’s who in Health, Science, Industry, Business and the Arts.

Gittelman began his career with the Public Affairs Department of CBS News where he wrote, produced and directed many award winning progress narrated by Edward R.. Murrow,, Eric Severeid and Charles Collingwood. It was there he developed and introduced in documentaries, the “photo-animated techniques. He also produced the network’s first medical news and features series.

Gittelman left CBS News to found Magnum Films, with Magnum Photos, the distinguished international agency of photojournalists, gaining access to difficult shooting locations, like China. Magnum Fillms evolved into Philip Gittelman Productions.

In association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, he created the At The Met television series and produced specials featuring art issues and great artists.

His special interest in the lives of Native Americans led to the creation of many films, beginning with the internationally honored BETWEEN TWO WORLDS,kphilip which intimately profiled the Oglala Sioux on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

His work with Public Broadcasting began with the Children’s Television Workshop. Gittelman has produced numerous specials telecast on PBS. His most recent production was a two hour documentary on American Maasters aboutthe brilliant, black coloratura singer of the last century,, Marian Anderson. The film received the highest production grant award of the year from the National Endowment for the Humanities, $650.000.

An Emmy and a Peabody Award. winner Gittelman is a member of the Directors Guild of America,and is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America