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Marilyn and Hal Weiner have produced, written and directed over 225 documentaries, a dozen "after school" television dramas and four PBS series through their Washington-based production company, Screenscope. They have also produced three feature films (Family Business, The Imagemaker and K2).

They have won Emmy Awards for Earth Summit Pledge, commissioned by the United Nations to open the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and Streets of Sorrow, an NBC documentary about a support group that helps people cope with the violent death of a family member.

They are recipients of the National Academy of Television Arts and Science's 1998 Silver Circle Award for "outstanding contributions to the television industry." Marilyn Weiner is the winner of Women-In-Film's 1997 "Women of Vision Award" for creative excellence. The Weiners have also won over 130 top international awards, including 39 CINE Golden Eagles.

Through the early 1980s, Marilyn & Hal Weiner produced over a dozen after-school dramas for PBS and documentaries for major corporations and non-profit organizations. During this period the Weiners also established an international film distribution division. Overseeing a staff of twenty, including marketing and advertising specialists, they produced and acquired over 500 titles.

In 1983 they sold their distribution subsidiary to Gulf & Western, enabling them to devote their full energies to producing feature films and high profile documentaries for prime-time television (primarily PBS and NBC). Their films have been shot on location in more than 30 countries on five continents, translated into numerous languages and broadcast throughout the world.

Marilyn Weiner was appointed by Mayor Anthony Williams and currently serves as a DC Commissioner for the Arts and Humanities. She is on the Board of Directors of Washington's Filmfest DC and The Committee To Promote Washington, DC. Ms. Weiner served on the Board of Directors of the Washington Urban League, Women-In-Film and the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company. She has been President of the Washington Film Council, Vice-President of Women-In-Film, consultant to the National Commission on Working Women, Chairperson of the Advisory Committee to the Washington Office of Motion Picture Development, and Panelist for both the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Hal Weiner is on the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Mental Health Initiatives and founder of the Independent Media Producer's Association. He served on the Board of Directors of the Council on Non-Theatrical Events and the Washington Urban League and was an Honorary Advisor to American University's School of Communications. Last year he was invited to testify before the House of Representative's Commerce Committee about national security issues and the availability of the world's drinking water.

 

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