LOIS CUNNIFF
President
Lois Cunniff is an independent film producer and writer, specializing in history, cultural and environmental subjects. Before forming her own company in 1991, she was the senior production executive for VOICES AND VISIONS, the acclaimed PBS series on American poetry. As senior producer of the films on Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and Emily Dickinson, and as producer of the Hart Crane film, she was directly involved in developing the art-directed documentary techniques that distinguished these films.
After early training at CBS News, she helped pioneer videotape location
production as a writer, producer and on-air reporter with the National
Educational Television AT ISSUE series and served for five years as
head of program planning and children’s programming at WNET/l3
in New York. Programs she produced and reported for the PBS CRISIS TO
CRISIS and INSIDE STORY series have won EMMY nominations and the George
Polk award. She has written host commentary for the Disney cable series
MOUSETERPIECE THEATRE with George Plimpton and for the Lifetime Channel.
Instructional projects include a two part video on "Awakening and
Enlightenment: Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin," produced
for Yale University and distributed by the PBS Adult Learning Service;
and films on acid rain, Washington, DC, and Western Europe for FilmFair
Communications. She has published The Book of Fees (William Morrow)
and a photo-essay on Soviet photojournalism in the Columbia Journalism
Review. Public policy studies she drafted during graduate study in urban
planning at NYU helped shape the cable telecommunications franchise
rules in New York and Chicago.
© 2011 LC Productions. All Rights Reserved.