Jenni Matz
matzorificproductions@gmail.com

Summary:

• Over ten years experience as an accomplished Producer, Researcher, and Video Editor for television and film.
• Four years experience in an academic library managing, arranging, describing, and providing access to multi-media and archival collections.
• Currently, Manager of Digital Projects for the Archive of American Television. www.emmytvlegends.org

Producer:

The Archive of American Television, The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Current: Manager Digital Projects and Business Development. www.emmytvlegends.org

• Manage all digital assets for this archive featuring in-depth, videotaped oral history interviews with legendary actors, directors, writers, and other television pioneers. Edited interviews and designed online access tool.
• Produced interview shoots and performed interviews with Ernest Borgnine, George Carlin and many others.

The American Comedy Archives at Emerson College.
www.emerson.edu/comedy
Project Mangager/ Archivist/ Video Producer

• Developed new digital media archive for comedy research, study and appreciation at Emerson College.
• Developed an oral history program and interviewed 60-plus leading legends of comedy including: Lewis Black, Phyllis Diller, Dick Gregory, Carlos Mencia, Bob Newhart, Dick Van Dyke, Jonathan Winters, Betty White.
• Produced, Directed, and Edited oral history interview Shoots and performed interviews with Bill Dana.
• Managed and arranged the collections (including film, video, manuscripts, photographs).
• Supervised digitization of collection, developed long term plan for preservation and access.
• Researched fundraising sources, drafted Federal grant applications.

ABC/ Igor Productions. Women, Fashion, and the Workplace.           
Line Producer for Diane Sawyer’s independent production company.

• Supervised and was responsible for the budget, shoots, research material, and hiring of staff for productions.

HH Productions, Shooting the Messengers
Associate Producer/ Researcher

• Documentary about the reporters who covered the war in Vietnam. Conducted all research, including archival footage-research at NARA- MD. Negotiated rights with vendors for stock footage.

The History Channel /Two Roads Media, LLC. This Week in History
Associate Producer

• Researched, wrote treatments, conducted pre-interviews, booked crews and travel for shoots, acquired and negotiated rights for all stock photos and footage for five separate, simultaneously produced segments.

Nickelodeon/ Duster Films. Blue’s Clues.
Associate Producer

• Production Coordinator for the first season of this highly-rated, Nick Jr’s interactive animated TV show.
• Scheduled and booked talent, produced voice-over sessions, shot and edited footage for live “letter” segments.

WFMU Radio 91.1FM
Producer of the WFMU Record Convention www.wfmu.org/recfair

• Under my direction, this event become the second- largest music tradeshow in the U.S. with over 125 vendors and 3,000 attendees over a 3-day event period in Manhattan.

Event Producer/Grant-writer.

• Co-wrote and received grants (including  Andy Warhol and NYSCA) for a special audio-visual presenter series in conjunction with Smackmellon Studios. Events garnered press in The Village Voice and the New York Times.
• Supervised all press and publicity, wrote press releases, for multi-media events featuring artists such as Sonic Youth and Fab Five Freddy and video artists such as Kevin and Jen McCoy and Soundlab.

Editor:
Historical/ Narrative Documentary:

Urban Harbors Institute/ UMass.
The Boston Harbor Cleanup: Reflections on a Court Case

• Interviewed, Produced, and Edited this feature length documentary about the U.S. Federal Court Judge A. David Mazzone’s legacy: the landmark case of the Boston Harbor Clean up. (Final Cut)
• Interviewees included Senator Edward Kennedy, Former Governor Michael Dukakis, EPA director Michael Deland, and others. Premiered at Boston Harbor Symposium, 2005.

Oregon Public Broadcasting
(PBS). American Passages

• Assistant Director/ Editor for a 16-part multimedia, documentary series on American literature.
• Coordinated shoots and hired local crews. Negotiated rights. Music Supervisor.

MSNBC.
The Greatest Generation II

• Assistant Editor on this Craig Leake production, written by and produced by Tom Brokaw. (AVID)

WGBH/ Firstlight Pictures.
Hoover Dam

• Production Coordinator/Assistant Editor (AVID) and Researcher for the award-winning PBS documentary The American Experience series on the Hoover Dam, written by Stephen Stept.
• Managed office, conducted all fact-checking, researched and acquired all stock footage, performed all media- logging, booked crews and arranged travel for shoots, negotiated rights, supervised interns, acted as sole liaison to vendors and clients, and edited segments on AVID.

The Typophiles, Inc.
Abe Lerner: A Life in Books

• Produced, Directed, Shot, and Edited this hour-long documentary about the life of this AIGA-award winning designer and bibliophile, commissioned by the Typophiles, a scholarly association.
• Featuring Martin Hutner (Past President, APHA), Joseph Solman (Artist & Founder, “The Ten”).

Music Documentary:
Interscope/Geffen.
Trail of Dead: Home Videos

• Edited and Co-Produced this documentary-feature for the band “...And you will know us by the Trail of Dead”, released as a collector’s edition DVD on Interscope Records, 2005.

Matzorific Productions.
Rye Coalition: Rock n Roll Miracle

• Feature-length music documentary about the band Rye Coalition, five boys from NJ who have seen their band rise and fall from the streets of Bayonne to a Dave Grohl-produced Hollywood album. Released as a DVD accompaniment to Curses, their latest CD, on Gern Blandsten, 2006.

Television News:
WMTW / ABC
affiliate. Auburn, ME

• Editor for the 11pm nightly news. Wrote copy for on-air scripts on the weekend segments and assisted producer in fact-checking. Responsible for organizing archival footage library and its database.
  

Grants & Awards:
The Book Club of California, Grantwinner
Wrote and awarded grant to produce a documentary about two living legends in the world of book design; Jack Stauffacher and Hermann Zapf.

Estelle Jussim Award, receipient 2006
Honored with this award given to a graduating Simmons College GSLIS student who demonstrates great promise in the visual arts.

Education:
Simmons College, Boston
MSLIS, Concentration: Archives • 2006
Bates College, Maine • B.A. Philosophy • 1996

Cool as a Cucumber in a Bucket of hot sauce!
Mac and PC, HTML, Dreamweaver, Excel, Filemaker Pro, Final Cut Pro, AVID, Photoshop. Experienced interviewer & researcher. Multi-tasker & Trouble-Shooter.  Recommendations available upon request.