Nancy Porter (Producer/Director)
has produced and directed numerous documentaries for PBS for over 25 years, first as a Producer at WGBH-TV Boston, and for the last 12 years as the owner of her own production company.

Nancy Porter, is the most important and prolific portraitist in the history of Boston television filmmaking."
         - Gerald Peary, film critic, Boston Phoenix

ancy Porter is well known for her three-dimensional humanist documentary portraits. The hallmark of her documentary style is the creative use of dramatic storytelling as a production technique. Her dramatic experience is also evident in the carefully reconstructed historical scenes used in her documentary work.

Nancy Porter has long experience making films about women and about literary figures. She was Executive Producer of Something Personal, a PBS series of films by and about women, and produced documentary portraits of American writers John Irving and E.L. Doctorow.

Nancy has won numerous awards including a National Emmy®, American Film Festival Blue Ribbon and three Cine Gold Eagle Awards. Porter was the first recipient of the Women in Film and Video New England Image Award for Vision and Excellence. In the fall of 2004, her film about Typhoid Mary, The Most Dangerous Woman in America, was one of the top rated programs on NOVA, and in 2005 was nominated for an Emmy® Award as Best Historical Documentary.

Other Porter films for NOVA, the Peabody award-winning PBS science series, are High Tech Babies, Can You Still Get Polio?, Will Venice Survive its Rescue? and Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Porter biographies for the PBS history series American Experience are Amelia Earhart, The Wright Stuff, Alone on the Ice, and Houdini.

Harriet Reisen (Producer/Writer)
has worked in television (public, commercial, and cable), radio, audiovisual presentations, print, and audio. She has directed, produced, developed new programs, and written documentary, comedy, drama, non-fiction, magazine journalism, radio commentary, radio documentary, film criticism, children's books, and songs. Two of her songs earned her regional Emmy nominations for Best Composer.

eisen has taught screenwriting at Boston Film and Video Foundation and at Harvard Summer School, and was a Fellow in Screenwriting at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

Much of Reisen's work has centered on history, especially New England history. She wrote narration and scripts for HBO's Fire at the Cocoanut Grove and The Wall Street Crash as well as WGBH's New England Begins, nominated for a regional Emmy.

Reisen was Co-Producer of Blacklisted, a three-hour radio drama, in six episodes, that blends documentary materials with a narrative story thread. Broadcast on U.S. and Australian public radio, the production was nominated for a Peabody Award, and won the Grand Award of the New York Festival for International Radio Programming.

Reisen founded and is President Emeritus of New England Women in Film and Video, and has published articles on Mexican subjects in Travel and Leisure, Provincetown Arts and Tin House.