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Allen
Mondell
allen@mediaprojects.org
Allen
Mondell has worked in films and television as a writer, producer
and director for 35 years. He began his career as a newspaper reporter
in Baltimore in the mid-sixties and then went to work in 1968 for
Westinghouse Broadcasting in Baltimore (WJZ-TV), first as a writer
for a magazine program and then as a writer/director of documentary
films about urban and social issues.
Moving on to KERA-TV in Dallas,
he spent five years as a writer, producer and director of documentaries
and special programs.
Allen
taught in the Peace Corps in West Africa after graduating from Williams
College with a B.A. in American History and Literature. He serves
on the boards of the Texas Jewish Historical Society and the Dallas
Producers Association.
Together,
Cynthia and Allen have been making award-winning docu-dramas
and documentary films and videos for over 25 years. Their work explores a wide range of subjects
but always with the goal of personalizing often complex
social problems.
They've looked at different cultures
and issues using dramatic re-enactments, intimate character
studies and archival footage. Many of their films have
aired nationwide on public television, cable and at
festivals worldwide.
ABOVE: Allen Mondell & Cynthia Salzman Mondell, producers and directors of The Monster Among
Us, filming in Munich, Germany in 2006.
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Cynthia
Salzman Mondell
cynfilm@mediaprojects.org
Cynthia
Salzman Mondell is an independent filmmaker who is committed to
making films and videos that she feels have something to say about
the world she lives in.
Her first documentary on housing and the
lack of it, Promise and Practice, aired on public television in l977. She then teamed up with her husband, Allen Mondell to form Media
Projects.Together, they have created over 30 social-issue documentary films and educational videos.
In recent years, she
has directed Funny Women,a film celebrating women comedians,
which
will be a permanent exhibition at the Women's Museum: An Institute
for the Future in Dallas. Previous to that, The Ladies Room,
a documentary
about the raucous and ribald world inside women's restrooms.
Cynthia
is past president of Women In Film - Dallas and past president of
the Board of New
Day Films,a nationally known independent film
cooperative based in New York City.
She was an artist in residence
at University of
Texas of Dallas, a member of the Texas Jewish
Historical Society and the American Jewish Committee.
Cynthia
was recently nominated for an Emmy
for her work on a Public Service
Announcement
for Meals on Wheels in conjunction with Women
in Film - Dallas and in 2004, she was honored
with the Women in
Film's Topaz Achievement Award.
ALL: Cynthia and Allen walk the red carpet at 2008 AFIDallas Film Festival premiere of their film, The Monster Among Us, on March 31.
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