FRANK R. DAWSON | Co-Producer, Co-Director
Frank Dawson is the former Dean of the Center for Media and Design Campus at Santa Monica College (SMC). Frank is also a Producer, writer, and founding partner in NuHouse Media Group, a Company originally formed to develop and produce television series, movies for television, and cable television features in association with CBS Entertainment Productions. Currently, Frank develops projects independently, and is the Co-Producer/Director of the documentary film, “Agents of Change”.
Frank began his broadcasting career in Radio as an on-air personality and producer before joining the Advertising and Promotion department at the CBS television network in Los Angeles, where he wrote and produced Promos and Television Movie opening sequences. As a Television Executive at CBS, Frank later coordinated the development of TV Series scripts and the production of Prime Time television programs.
At Universal’s Television Division, Frank then served as Director of Comedy Development, where he was involved in the development and production of “Charles In Charge" (CBS). When assigned as Director of Programming, he served as Universal's Production Executive on the NBC dramatic series, "Miami Vice", while also spearheading the creation and launching of the ABC Network comedy series, "He’s The Mayor".
As Senior Vice President of Television for SI Communications (SI) in Burbank, California, Frank supervised production and development activities of the company in the syndication market. He was Co-Executive Producer of “Story of A People”, a syndicated television program hosted by Debbie Allen and Joe Morton, as well as “The Other Side of Victory”, an innovative sports magazine program that was hosted by “Good Morning America’s” Robin Roberts and Fox Sports’ James Brown. As a partner in the media company, “2002 Communications”, he was a producer of Tavis Smiley’s first television Talk Show Series Pilot.
Frank Dawson earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, and a Master of Science degree in Television and Radio from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, where he has been inducted into the school's professional gallery of distinguished alumni.
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ABBY GINZBERG | Co-Producer, Co-Director
Abby Ginzberg is a Peabody award-winning director, who has been producing compelling documentaries about race and social justice for over 35 years. Her latest film, Judging Juries,
reveals about the systemic obstacles to obtaining juries in criminal cases which reflect a cross-section of the community, including the fact that in California jurors are only paid $15 per day to serve. A new San Francisco pilot program, which pays needy jurors $100 per day, demonstrates the importance of increasing pay in creating a diverse jury pool. Abby produced A Double Life, which will premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October, 2023. The film tells the gripping true story of Stephen Bingham, a lawyer accused of passing a gun to prisoners’ rights leader George Jackson in 1971. Her film, Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary. The film is an intimate, compelling film about Rep. Barbara Lee, who is best known for her lone NO vote against the use of military force following the 9/11 attacks and has spent the last 24 years in Congress fighting for peace, justice and equality. It is available on Amazon Prime. Her film, Waging Change (2019) is a documentary about the challenges faced by tipped servers, forced to rely on their tips and the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 per hour was broadcast on public television in February and March, 2021. And Then They Came for Us (2017), about the connection between the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WW II and the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban, was broadcast on public television in May, 2019 and 2020.
She co-produced and co-directed Agents of Change (2016) with Frank Dawson), about the Black student movement of the late 1960’s on college campuses, which won the Jury and Audience awards for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival and was broadcast on public television on America ReFramed. Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa won a 2015 Peabody award and has screened at film festivals around the world, winning four audience awards. Abby is the Co-Producer of American Justice on Trial, (co-directed by Andrew Abrahams and Herb Ferrette) which premiered at the 2022 San Francisco International Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Short Documentary category of the 2023 Academy Awards. Abby was the Consulting Producer on The Barber of Birmingham, which premiered at Sundance in 2011 and was nominated for an Oscar® in the Short Doc category and was directed by Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin.
Abby is currently in post-production on a film called, Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold. Szold was responsible for saving the lives of over 11,000 German Jewish children during the Holocaust and for creating the infrastructure for health care in Israel, which to this day provides medical services to both Jews and Arabs. Abby is also producing a documentary series about women of color serving in the House of Representatives.