Howard Silver (Arts Into Production) creates content for many musicians and choreographers including documenting the past 9 seasons for American Ballet Theatre and Joffrey Ballet School –on stage and behind the scenes.

He’s produced and directed over 300 documentaries on the arts, science and technology for social media and broadcast television, covering every imaginable subject from pop culture to nano-technology.

He produced The Metropolitan Museum of Art web series, 82nd & Fifth (http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org) and directed a series of live-stream music performance videos for MET Live.

He wrote and produced for Michael Moore’s TV NATION; WNET’s CITY ARTS (EMMY); PBS’s ALIVE FROM OFF CENTER – ERIC BOGOSIAN'S FUNHOUSE and DANCES IN EXILE (choreography –Ruby Shang, script –David Henry Hwang); and Bloomberg MUSE (NY Press Club and a LA Press Club award).




(917) 885-8729
hsilver@mac.com
www.vimeo.com/showcase/144462 (commercial)
www.linkedin.com/in/howardasilver
howrd_silver (IG)

EDUCATION: B.F.A. New York University, University of Minnesota, Major: Art History.

AWARDS: LA Press Club Award for Best Entertainment Show for Bloomberg MUSE

New York Press Club Award for Cultural Programming for Bloomberg MUSE

FAC-TV Int'l Festival of Films on Architecture for PUBLIC PLACES.

EMMY –Local Arts Programming for City Arts episode, Camera Obscura

EMMY for Outstanding Videotape Editing for PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE.

AIA Citation for Excellence in Urban Planning for NY WATERFRONT.

First Place. Municipal Art Society Waterfront Competition for NY WATERFRONT

New York State Council for the Arts grants.

Films are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Tate  
Gallery, The Walker Art Center, F.I.T., the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Federation for the Arts.




PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, WRITER (Also EDITOR and VIDEOGRAPHER) for Broadcast and the Web –selected credits

WEB SERIES / SOCIAL MEDIA

82ND & FIFTH Producer, Year long web series of 100 episodes; each, one of the Met’s curators discussing one transformational work in the Met’s collection.

CGIAR  DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUES 11 short videos profiling government and NGO leaders in field of sustainable agriculture and climate change. Shot and edited on spot and uploaded to CGIAR website same day.
GRADIBLE Director, DP, Editor a series of 25 short videos educating the viewer on student loan options.

NON-FICTION PROGRAMMING - Broadcast and Non-Broadcast

BLOOMBERG MUSE Producer, Writer, Bloomberg Television weekly series on the arts and food, (produced over 120 segments and was responsible for evolving MUSE’s style and look, creating efficiencies and enhanced production and post-production values across Bloomberg’s roster of field productions.
BLOOMBERG: THE INNOVATORS Producer. Director, Writer half-hour program covering new technology in medicine.
BUSINESSWEEK –THE DO LECTURES Producer, DP, series of talks by young non-profit and entrepreneurial leaders for BusinessWeek Magazine.
BLOOMBERG: THE BUSINESS OF LIFE Producer, DP, Writer, series of VOD (and app) consumer and trader education videos.
THE X-SPECIES ADVENTURES Producer, DP, Editor, pilot for food and the environment series with environmental scientist and artist, Natalie Jeremijenko.
UNDERSTANDING PINA Director, DP, Editor, documentary on the life and work of choreographer Pina Bausch.
CREATIVE TIME TV Creator, Producer, DP, Editor, web series on the arts profiling artists including Marina Abramovič; Ross Bleckner; Ernesto Neto; Urban Underground Explorer, Steve Duncan and others at work for Creative Time, the public arts fund.
GOTHAM Producer, various segments on New York City life. Produced by Saad & Moss for Metro Channel.
LIFETIME LIVE Producer, Writer, DP, 25 field segments for woman’s daily talk show. Produced by ABC Television Productions.
CITY ARTS Producer, Vinyl, Art in Transit, Poets Laureate and Camera Obscura (EMMY local –for episode) for WNET arts show.
TV NATION Writer, Corporate Consultants, Producer, TV Nation Day and various bumpers. NBC series with Michael Moore.
LAST CALL Producer, Writer, various field segments of CBS late night series. Produced by Fred Silverman.
TILT 23 1/2 Writer, television news/ comedy magazine series. Produced by Fujisankei Television.

DRAMATIC / PERFORMANCE / LIVE PROGRAMMING BROADCAST

THE MET PRESENTS Director, Live-streamed multi-camera broadcasts of performances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Performances including Charles Lloyd and The Liars in the Temple of Dendur, DJ Spooky, Patti Smith, Efterklang, Judy Collins, a day long TEDx MET event, Alarm Will Sound.
DANSPACE PROJECT: Conversations Without Walls Live-streaming 4 hours of discussions and performances broadcast live on Danspace Project website.
PATTI SMITH Producer, Shooter, Editor of her Far Rockaway Beach concert.
VARIOUS DANCE COMPANIES AND PERFORMERS Shooting and editing 1 & 2 camera performances at MOMA PS1, DANSPACE PROJECTS, THE KITCHEN, NEW YORK LIVE ARTS
DANCES IN EXILE Producer, Director, dance for television choreographed by Ruby Shang, written by David Henry Hwang with B.D. Wong for PBS series ALIVE FROM OFF-CENTER.
ERIC BOGOSIAN'S FUNHOUSE Producer, Director, Editor, TV drama for PBS series, ALIVE FROM OFF-CENTER.
THE BIG ROOM Co-Producer, HA! TV (COMEDY CENTRAL) pilot with Mort Sahl. Directed by Nicolas Roeg.


MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

82ND & FIFTH Producer, Year long web series of 100 episodes; each, one of the Met’s curators discussing one transformational work in the Met’s collection.
MUSEUM OF THE US MARINE CORPS ORIENTATION FILM Writer, produced by Batwin/Robin.
SCROLL Producer, video for permanent exhibition. Jewish Museum.  
NEW YORK WATERFRONT Producer, Director, presentation (First Place in Municipal Art Society Competition).
GRAND OPENINGS Producer, Director, Editor, documentary for PBS about 3 architectural projects by SITE and their suburban context. In the architecture collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY and Carnegie Museum of Art.
PUBLIC PLACES Producer, Director, Editor, documentary for the Virginia Museum of Art exhibit on SITE. In the architecture collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY and Carnegie Museum of Art.


COMMERCIALS / FASHION/ CORPORATE

LIFE OF KHAI Tribute video for benefit dinner honoring Meng Khai Tham, Creative Dirtector, Ogilvy
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS Creator, Director, Producer, Editor, DP, spot for Columbia Artists Management, Inc.
BEAUTY & THE BEAST THE NUTCRACKER MAN OF LA MANCHA Producer, Editor, DP, spots for Columbia Artists Management, Inc.
POSITANO PARADIS PALIO MAXIM Copywriter, commercials. WQXR
DAVID DIAO Creator, Director, Producer, Editor, spot for Apexart, a non-profit art gallery for exhibition, Maurizio Is Not Here.
El DUQUE Director, Producer, Writer, Director, TV spot for Latino Expo.
GREENFIELD AT LARGE Director, Producer, DP, Editor over 30 bumpers/IDs for start-up of new CNN show.
REBECCA DANENBERG Director, Producer, Editor, DP, various fashion videos.
GORDON HENDERSON Director, Producer, Editor, DP, fashion video.
MARY MCFADDEN Director, Producer, Editor, DP, several fashion videos for Mary McFadden.



EDITOR, COLORIST –selected credits

DRAMATIC EDITING –BROADCAST & THEATRICAL

THE STATE MTV comedy pilot.
BIG GIRL HIDDEN COMMERCIALS VAN GOGH XMAS SPECTACULAR ACTING IS MY LIFE FALLING IN LOVE BROADWAY STORY (4 episodes) dramatic shorts directed by Tom Schiller for SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.
WAYSIDE SCHOOL ABC prime-time comedy series pilot. Broadcast Arts.
PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE CBS series. (EMMY Award)
ERIC BOGOSIAN'S FUNHOUSE for PBS ALIVE FROM OFF-CENTER.
ENCYCLOPEDIA HBO series pilot by Children’s Television Workshop.
MUPPET'S 'HOW-TO' SHOW for Henson Associates.
QUE SONO SEBASTIAN Special Effects and Colorist, feature, SUNDANCE invitee 2004. Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Director.




DOCUMENTARY EDITING –BROADCAST & THEATRICAL

DESIGN IS ONE Colorist, feature documentary on Massimo and Leila Vignelli. In theatrical release
A MOTHER’S SEARCH Hour documentary, ABC VANISHING series.
SPY  MAGAZINE'S HOW TO BECOME FAMOUS NBC Special. Kaminsky & Co.
MAKING WELFARE WORK Hour PBS documentary produced by Public Policy Productions.
AT THE EDGE OF CONQUEST: THE JOURNEY OF CHIEF WAI WAI Documentary  on Amazon tribe’s chief’s first trip out of the jungle. Realis Films. (Nominated for ACADEMY AWARD Best Short Documentary)
THE REPUBLICANS: BEFORE AND AFTER REAGAN Co-editor, PBS documentary. Produced by Dan Polin.
HEROES Series Editor –documentary and dramatic re-enactments for Hallmark Channel. Jackson Films.
BASEBALL MINNESOTA Various episodes of cinema-verité series for FX Network. Broadway Network Productions.
COOKING THIN Various episodes for series on healthy eating. Food Network.
NEW YORK TOP TEN Co-Editor, documentary on fashion models for RAI. Chester English Productions.  
THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE Documentary on right wing extremists for Planned Parenthood.
ABC 20/20 Various segments.
PAVORATTI...PLUS! Documentary 'intermission' for LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER.
CBS 30 MINUTES Various episodes of teenage magazine show.
VH-1 Comedy Cruise Hour comedy special.
WOODSTOCK: RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE SIXTIES Supervising Editor, CBS primetime music special. Kaminsky & Co. producer.


COMMERCIAL / PSA / MUSEUM / MUSIC VIDEO EDITING

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE Several videos on environmental initiatives. JDA.
BIO-BULLETINS Short videos for the American Museum of Natural History Hall of Biodiversity and website.
Exploring Physics Several episodes of children’s physics series. Directed by Tarquin Cardona for Schlesinger Media.
MIRRORING EVIL Exhibit video for Jewish Museum, NY.
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL Series of shows on business practices. David Grubin Productions.
CITIBANK CONSUMER services  KNICKERBOCKER TOYS  KAL-KAN Various commercial and  corporate films. Maysles Films.
CORNERSTONE Richard X. Heyman music video. Ken Ross, director. Cyclone Pictures.
TEEN PREGNANCY PSA for New York State Department of Health. Grandview Island Prod.




OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Graphic Design, various publications. Adjunct Prof., St. Johns Univ., Instructor at SVA, NYU, Film/Video Arts.


TRAINING AVID & SYMPHONY, FCP7 & FCPX, DaVinci Resolve, Fusion, Photoshop, Illustrator, Various broadcast cameras HD and 4K. Lighting. Audio Recording, Multi-cam Live Switching