Marilyn and Hal Weiner, Emmy-Award winning filmmakers, present their documentary Extreme Realities with a screening and discussion to follow. Narrated by Academy-Award winner, Matt Damon, “Extreme Realities” is a one-hour documentary that explores the relationship between extreme weather events and threats to our national security.
Extreme Realities is a one hour, prime-time PBS documentary. It is the 13th episode of the award-winning PBS series Journey to Planet Earth.
Through their Washington, DC production company (Screenscope), Marilyn and Hal Weiner have produced, written, and directed over 225 documentaries and four public television series (Journey To Planet Earth, Women At Work, Faces Of Man and The World Of Cooking). They have also produced three feature films (Family Business, The Imagemaker, and K2).
The Weiners have won Emmy Awards for The Earth Summit Pledge, commissioned by the United Nations to open the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and Streets of Sorrow, an NBC documentary about a support group that helps people cope with the violent death of a family member.
They are recipients of the National Academy of Television Arts and Science’s Silver Circle Award for “outstanding contributions to the television industry.” Marilyn Weiner is the winner of Women-In-Film’s “Women of Vision Award” for creative excellence.
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