WALTER J. GOTTLIEB
Project Director/Producer/Writer

Walter is an independent television producer, writer and director with eighteen years’ experience in news, magazine, and documentary programming.   His company, Final Cut Productions, has produced television programs and program segments on a contract basis since 1994.   His work has appeared on PBS, TLC, Lifetime, CBS, Fox, USA Networks, ESPN, and the Military Channel, among others. He is also a freelance scriptwriter for National Geographic Explorer on MSNBC.  

Walter recently completed two documentaries:   IUE:  50 Years of Progressive Trade Unionism, a history of one of America’s most venerable labor unions, and Don’t Call Me Street Kid, on the plight of street children in Latin America and the Caribbean.  He recently traveled to Russia to shoot The Making of Red Moon, a mini-documentary for PBS about the Soviet space program.

Before becoming an independent producer, he launched and served as senior producer on two public television series, This is America with Dennis Wholey and America:  Personal Conversations with Dennis Wholey, and co-produced Fox Television’s award-winning, rock ‘n roll political show, Off the Record.  He spent the first seven years of his career in the trenches of television news.

Walter is a graduate of New York University’s Film & Television school, with a double major in History (emphasis on 20th Century America).  He is the winner of several awards, including two Emmy awards, two Tellys, and two awards from the International Labor Communications Association.  He grew up in Silver Spring, MD and currently lives and works there.