Michael Shamberg

Michael Shamberg (born 1945?)[1] is an American film producer and former Time–Life correspondent.

Michael Shamberg
Shamberg at Web Summit 2017
Born1945 (age 7576)
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis
OccupationFilm producer, former Time–Life correspondent
Spouse(s)
Megan Williams
(m. 1974; div. 1991)

Carla Santos Shamberg
(m. after 1996)
Children3

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
1980Heart Beat
1981Modern Problems
1983The Big Chill
1986Club Paradise
1988A Fish Called Wanda
1989How I Got into College
1994Reality Bites
8 Seconds
Pulp FictionExecutive producer
1995Get Shorty
1996Sunset Park
Matilda
Feeling Minnesota
1997Fierce Creatures
Gattaca
1998Out of Sight
Living Out Loud
1999Man on the Moon
2000Drowning MonaExecutive producer
Erin Brockovich
2001The Caveman's Valentine
How High
2003Camp
2004Along Came Polly
Garden StateExecutive producer
2005Be Cool
The Skeleton Key
2006World Trade Center
2007Freedom Writers
Reno 911!: Miami
2010Extraordinary Measures
2011Contagion
2012LOL
Django UnchainedExecutive producer
2013Runner Runner
2014Wish I Was Here
A Walk Among the Tombstones
2015Freeheld
BurntExecutive producer
2016Get a Job
2019Cold Pursuit
WetlandsExecutive producer
As an actor
Year Film Role
2000Erin BrockovichPG&E Lawyer
2004Along Came PollyVan Lew Executive
2010Extraordinary MeasuresRenzler Venture Capitalist #1
Thanks
Year Film Notes
2002The Good GirlSpecial thanks
2018A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Super Troopers 2

Television

Year Title Credit Notes
1972Four More YearsDocumentary
1974Lord of the UniverseDocumentary
1976Super BowlDocumentary
TVTV Looks at the Academy AwardsTelevision special
1977The TVTV ShowTelevision film
1998The Pentagon WarsExecutive producerTelevision film
2000CelebrityExecutive producerTelevision film
2001Kate BrasherExecutive producer
2002The American EmbassyExecutive producer
The FunkhousersExecutive producerTelevision film
2001−02UC: UndercoverExecutive producer
2003Other People's BusinessExecutive producerTelevision film
Karen SiscoExecutive producer
2015−19Into the BadlandsExecutive producer
2004−20Reno 911!Executive producer
TBAThe Devil in the White CityExecutive producer
As an editor
Year Title Notes
1974Lord of the UniverseDocumentary
1976Super BowlDocumentary
As writer
Year Title Notes
1977The TVTV ShowTelevision film

References

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