Featured Projects View Trailer CRISIS HOTLINE: Veterans Press 1
Currently on HBO ON DEMAND and HBO GO.
Premiered Veterans Day, Monday Nov. 11, 2013.
Awards: Nominated for an Academy Award, nominated for an Emmy award, and earned the Gracie Award and the Sentinel Award
Top Ten Monks Short documentary for HBO.
Chronicles a small group of Cistercian monks in Austria whose Gregorian Chants hit the top of the charts all over Europe.
Premiere week - December 20, 2010View Trailer
Boy Interrupted Feature-length documentary about the bipolar illness and tragic suicide of her fifteen year-old son, Evan, in 2005. Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and subsequently aired on HBO.
Premiere week - January 15, 2009
The Drug Years A four-hour documentary series for VH1 and the Sundance Channel.
Premiere week - June 12th, 2006
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip Hop A five-hour documentary series for VH1
Premiere week - October 4th, 2004Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art PBS series on 20th century American art and culture. By providing context and perspective on the dialogue that is continuously taking place between artists, critics, and the society as a whole, Imagining America will give a broad-based audience a better understanding of why conflicts over the definition of art are an ongoing process that is intrinsic to a democratic society by tracing the spirited discourse of ideas that have contributed to the formation of America's cultural identity.
(aired Dec. 28, 2005 at 9PM on PBS)Valley of Tears Feature documentary that chronicles over a twenty-year period the struggle to overcome racial divisions in a migrant farm worker community in South Texas. The film is distributed by 7th Art Releasing. It is appearing in film festivals and limited theatrical distribution throughout the country before being broadcast on PBS fall 2005 (check your local station). Read the reviews.
VH1 Presents the 70s VH1 1996- Five part series on social, political and musical movements of the decade.
Produced and Directed by Hart and Dana PerryHarlan County: USA 1976- Feature film on coal miners.
Cinematography- Hart PerryAwards: Academy Award
Rhythm Country & Blues 1994- A tale of two cities, Memphis and Nashville featuring duets between legendary country and R&B artists with a civil rights subtext— Country Music and R&B reflecting the Southern experience.
Director- Hart Perry
Editor- Dana Heinz PerryAwards: Monitor Award- Best Director, 2 Grammy Awards for music
John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen PBS 1990- A biography about the man credited with integrating popular music.
Producer/Director- Hart Perry
Line Producer- Dana Heinz PerryAwards: Peabody Award, Cine Golden Eagle, Silver Star-Houston Film Festival, London & Florence Film Festivals
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson PBS 1999- Documentary on Native American Music.
Producer, Director and Editor- Dana Heinz PerryMotown 40: the Music is Forever ABC 1998- 4 hour special on 40 years of Hitsville USA's popular music.
Producers- Dana Heinz Perry, Hart Perry, Yvonne Smith
[Director Part 1-Yvonne Smith, Director Part 2- Hart Perry]Haiti: Killing the Dream
PBS 1992- Documentary on the coup in Haiti presented by Jonathan Demme.
Cinematographer, Producer, Co-Director- Hart Perry
Co-Producer, Editor- Dana Heinz PerryAwards: 1st Prize-Latin American and San Juan Film Festivals; Screenings- NY Film Festival, Human Rights Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Havana Film Festival
Gipsy Kings: Tierra Gitana 1996- 1-hour documentary on the music of the Gipsy Kings.
Director- Hart PerryLeonard Bernstein's New York Ovation 1997- Bernstein's music illustrates the world that was New York in the 40s and 50s. Performances by Broadway stars including Mandy Patinkin, Donna Murphy, Audra McDonald and Dawn Upshaw.
Director- Hart Perry
Segment Director- Dana Heinz PerryAward: Cable Ace Award
Additional DocumentariesTrauma: Life in the Real ER and Paramedics The Learning Channel 1997, 1999- 6 episodes of reality shows.
Producer, Directors- Dana Heinz Perry, Hart PerryThe Human Canvas The Learning Channel 2000- Character driven documentary on tattooing and extreme body modification.
Director- Hart Perry
Producer- Dana Heinz PerryThe Begging Game PBS 1995- Frontline special.
Editor- Dana Heinz PerryVietnam Veterans Against the War PBS 1971- American Dream Machine anti-war film.
Director- Hart PerryThe Repeater PBS 1971- American Dream Machine docu-drama on prison with Stacey Keach.
Editor- Hart PerryAward: Cine Golden Eagle