Michael B. Schwartz

Video Production, Editing, Post and Instruction
Los Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA 1987 - Present

Summary of Video Experience

• Producer - "Midnight Cowboy" Laserdisc, The Criterion Collection, Voyager Company.
• Post Production Supervisor - "Scandals", ABC Pilot starring Lindsey Wagner, October 1988.
• Video Producer - "Mozart: The "Dissonant" Quartet" Laserdisc, The Voyager Company.
• Avid Editor and Instructor - Art Institute of Seattle, 2000-2001.
  Award Winning Projects include: Claustromania.   1st Place Short Video Award, Atlanta, 2001.
• Videographer - "Citizen Kane" Criterion Laserdisc Interviews, The Voyager Company.
• Color Video Studio Technician - California Institute of the Arts, Student PA.

Video Production

1992 - 1989 California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
1989 - 1991 Audio Video Film Services, Inc. Las Vegas, Nevada
1989 - 1992 The Voyager Co. Santa Monica, CA
1992 - 1999 Activision Studios, Inc. Santa Monica, CA

• Color Studio Technician: 2 Years - Maintain Broadcast level Studio at CalArts; Ikegami's, Grass Valley Switcher, CMX, 1" Video, Telecine.
• Videographer: Commentary Interviews for Classic Films - Commercially released Criterion Laserdiscs - Hollywood Directors, Producers and Actors.
• Production Manager: Blue Screen Video Shoots for Computer Games, Video Productions.
• Director: Industrial Video Productions - Training Videos, Summer Camp Promotionals, Special Interest Videos (Russ Meyer, Roger Ebert, John Landis).

Video Production and Editing

• Off-Line Editor: "The First Emperor of China" Director Robert Duncan.
• Producer, Editor: "Not Before the Crack of Noon" Talk Show Pilot, 1989.
• Cinematographer: "Letters To The Machine" by Cathy Galeota. Winner of Short Experimental Films at Mill Valley Film Festival, 1989.
• Video Producer: "Mozart: The "Dissonant" Quartet" by Robert Winter.
• Videographer, Editor: "Citizen Kane 50th Anniversay Laserdisc" The Criterion Collection, Voyager Co.
• Post Production Superviser: "Scandals" with Lyndsey Wagner, Pilot for ABC, aired September, 1988.
• Unit Production Manager and Video Editor: "The Gary Gellman Show" Talk Show Pilot, JJProductions, 1990.
• Producer: ACTV Video Productions, Cleveland Ohio, Industrials, 1989.

Teacher - Video Editing and Production

2000 - 2001 Art Institute of Seattle, WA.
• Classes include Avid Editing, Advanced Avid Editing, Digital Filmaking, Adobe Premiere 6.0, Offline Editing, Intro to Video, etc.