Michael Shamberg | |
|---|---|
.jpg.webp) Shamberg at Web Summit 2017 | |
| Born | May 4, 1945 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer, former Time–Life correspondent |
| Spouses | Megan Williams
(m. 1974; div. 1991)Carla Santos Shamberg
(m. 1996) |
| Children | 3 |
Michael Shamberg (born May 4, 1945)[1] is an American film producer and former Time–Life correspondent.
Life and career
His credits include Erin Brockovich, A Fish Called Wanda, Garden State, Gattaca, Pulp Fiction and The Big Chill. His production companies include Jersey Films, with Stacey Sher and Danny DeVito, and, as of 2015, Double Feature Films, with Stacey Sher.
In the 1960s and 1970s, counter-culture video collectives extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies. In 1970, Shamberg co-founded a video collective called Raindance Corporation, which published a newspaper-magazine called Radical Software. Raindance Corporation later became TVTV, or Top Value Television. Shamberg and his first wife Megan Williams were founding members of TVTV.[2] The collective believed new technology could effect social change. An example was Shamberg's work on In Hiding: A Conversation with Abbie Hoffman, broadcast on Public-access television station WNET/13 in May 1975.[2]
Shamberg described his approach as "guerrilla television" (the title of his 1971 book) because, despite its strategies and tactics similar to warfare, guerrilla television is non-violent and he saw it as a means to break through the barriers imposed by broadcast television, which he called beast television.
His TVTV group's documentary Lord of the Universe, 1974, won a DuPont-Columbia Award in 1975.[3] The group urged for the use of Sony's Portapak video camera, introduced in 1967, to be merged with the documentary film style and television, and later pioneer use of 3/4" video in their works.
Shamberg is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, MO.[4]
Filmography
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
Film
| Year | Film | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Heart Beat | |
| 1981 | Modern Problems | |
| 1983 | The Big Chill | |
| 1986 | Club Paradise | |
| 1988 | A Fish Called Wanda | |
| 1989 | How I Got into College | |
| 1994 | Reality Bites | |
| 8 Seconds | ||
| Pulp Fiction | Executive producer | |
| 1995 | Get Shorty | |
| 1996 | Sunset Park | |
| Matilda | ||
| Feeling Minnesota | ||
| 1997 | Fierce Creatures | |
| Gattaca | ||
| 1998 | Out of Sight | |
| Living Out Loud | ||
| 1999 | Man on the Moon | |
| 2000 | Drowning Mona | Executive producer |
| Erin Brockovich | ||
| 2001 | The Caveman's Valentine | |
| How High | ||
| 2003 | Camp | |
| 2004 | Along Came Polly | |
| Garden State | Executive producer | |
| 2005 | Be Cool | |
| The Skeleton Key | ||
| 2006 | World Trade Center | |
| 2007 | Freedom Writers | |
| Reno 911!: Miami | ||
| 2010 | Extraordinary Measures | |
| 2011 | Contagion | |
| 2012 | LOL | |
| Django Unchained | Executive producer | |
| 2013 | Runner Runner | |
| 2014 | Wish I Was Here | |
| A Walk Among the Tombstones | ||
| 2015 | Freeheld | |
| Burnt | Executive producer | |
| 2016 | Get a Job | |
| 2017 | Wetlands | Executive producer |
| 2019 | Cold Pursuit |
- As an actor
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | PG&E Lawyer |
| 2004 | Along Came Polly | Van Lew Executive |
| 2010 | Extraordinary Measures | Renzler Venture Capitalist #1 |
- Thanks
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | The Good Girl | Special thanks |
| 2018 | A Futile and Stupid Gesture | |
| Super Troopers 2 |
Television
| Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Four More Years | Documentary | |
| 1974 | Lord of the Universe | Documentary | |
| 1976 | Super Bowl | Documentary | |
| TVTV Looks at the Academy Awards | Television special | ||
| 1977 | The TVTV Show | Television film | |
| 1998 | The Pentagon Wars | Executive producer | Television film |
| 2000 | Celebrity | Executive producer | Television film |
| 2001 | Kate Brasher | Executive producer | |
| 2002 | The American Embassy | Executive producer | |
| The Funkhousers | Executive producer | Television film | |
| 2001−02 | UC: Undercover | Executive producer | |
| 2003 | Other People's Business | Executive producer | Television film |
| Karen Sisco | Executive producer | ||
| 2015−19 | Into the Badlands | Executive producer | |
| 2004−20 | Reno 911! | Executive producer | |
| 2021 | Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon | Executive producer | Television film |
| 2022 | Meltdown: Three Mile Island | Executive producer | Documentary |
| TBA | The Devil in the White City | Executive producer |
- As an editor
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Lord of the Universe | Documentary |
| 1976 | Super Bowl | Documentary |
| TVTV Looks at the Academy Awards | Television special |
- As writer
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | The TVTV Show | Television film |
References
- ↑ Michael Shamberg Biography (1945 - 2020)
- 1 2 Teasdale, Parry D. (1999). Videofreex: America's First Pirate TV Station & the Catskills Collective that Turned it on. Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press Corp. p. 214. ISBN 1-883789-21-4.
- ↑ "All DuPont-Columbia Award winners". Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012.
- ↑ Rea, Barbara (27 October 2016). "Totenberg to headline annual Founders Day celebration". Washington University in St. Louis. Disqus. Retrieved 4 August 2019.