Madeline Amgott, Executive Producer, an award-winning pioneer producer of network news and documentaries, is now an independent producer with her own company, Amgott Productions. HANS HOFMANN: Artist/Teacher, Teacher/Artist, her upcoming one-hour documentary on PBS in June 2003, is the follow-up to her short film, Reflections of Former Students, produced for the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition of Hans Hofmann paintings in 2002.

Highlights of Ms. Amgott’s long and successful career as a producer include news, interviews, and financial programming for CNBC; The Today Show with Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley, 60 Minutes, Walter Cronkite’s Universe, 30 Minutes, and The Morning News, for CBS; Bill Moyers’ PBS series In Search of the Constitution and A Better Way for King Features Entertainment and Lifetime.

She produced Not For Women Only with Barbara Walters, then Frank Field and Lynn Redgrave, and was a freelance producer and writer on such projects as: Presidential Countdown (CBS News), Tobacco Troubles (NET), Survival In The City (60 Minutes), The Tenement (CBS Reports), More Than a Hospital (WNBC TV), United Nations World (WOR TV), The Jesus Freaks (CBS News). Ms. Amgott created and produced The Big News (WABC TV), the first extended local news program in New York City, from 1961-1963. Earlier, she was a CBS News staff researcher, associate producer and writer of radio and TV shows with Edward R Murrow, Charles Collingwood, Harry Reasoner and Walter Cronkite, including coverage of presidential elections. (1956-1961).

During these years, Ms. Amgott received three Emmys, four Ohio State awards, two Peabody’s and a Matrix award. Her programs have been honored by the Greater Miami Film Festival, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the National Council of Churches, the National Education Association and the Daughters of the American Revolution, among other groups. HANS HOFMANN: Artist/Teacher, Teacher/Artist was screened at the 21st International Festival of Film on Art in Montreal in March 2002.

MUSE Film And Television,
Co-Executive Producer, is one of the nation’s largest executive productions companies that specializes in documentaries on cultural subjects. MUSE coordinates and manages the production of films from inception to completion by creating partnerships with independent filmmakers, technical consultants, content advisors, broadcasters, and distributors. MUSE’s mission is based on the belief that film can be one of the most important tools in understanding art. By examining art in its historical and cultural context, MUSE documentaries seek to enhance the art experience. Founded in 1992, MUSE was created with the goal of producing necessary and innovative programs on the arts and making them available to the public through broadcast and educational markets worldwide.