Howard Silver

Arts Into Production

New York, NY, USA
My approach to each project is exciting, enlightening story-telling; using the creative energy inherent in video at its best –with style, intelligence and sometimes humor.

Work Experience

Bloomberg MUSE

Producer / Writer

Producer, Writer, Shooter, Bloomberg Television weekly series on the arts and food, Produced over 120 segments. I was responsible for evolving MUSE’s style and look, creating efficiencies and enhanced production and post-production values across Bloomberg’s roster of field productions.
May 2006 - February 2009 New York, New York, United States

Arts Into Production

Producer, Director, Shooter, Editor

Producing short documentaries for Creative Time and Fly 16x9 on the arts and new ideas.

To date have produced 11 documentaries, including:

THE X-SPECIES ADVENTURES Producer, Writer, Shooter, Editor, half-hour pilot for food and the environment series with environmental scientist and artist, Natalie Jeremijenko.

UNDERSTANDING PINA: THE LEGACY OF PINA BAUSCH Director, Shooter, Editor, 38 minute documentary co-directed with Kathryn Sullivan on the life and work of choreographer Pina Bausch through interviews with her dancers from the Seventies through the Nineties.

MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT Director, Shooter, Editor, short video for FLY 16X9 profiling the artist preparing for her MOMA retrospective and her Institute For Long-Duration Performance Art in Hudson, NY.
March 2009 - New York, New York, United States

Education

New York University

BFA Film & Television

New York, New York, United States

University Of Minnesota

Art History major
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Awards

NATAS

EMMY for Arts Programming for City Arts

2001

NATAS

EMMY - Outstanding Editing for Pee Wee's Playhouse

1987

NY Press Club

NY YORK PRESS CLUB Award for Cultural Programming for Bloomberg MUSE

2008

LA Press Club

LA PRESS CLUB Award for Cultural Programming for Bloomberg MUSE

2009

American Institute Of Architecture (AIA)

Citation for Excellence in Urban Design for Westside Waterfront Video

1990

Skills

Apple Final Cut Studio, Audio Production, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Audition, Avid Symphony, FCPX, Lighting, Various Broadcast Video Cameras,