Jenni Matz Email & Phone Number

North Hollywood, Ca

Director of The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (formerly The Archive of American Television). Since 1997, The Academy Foundation has captured the history of television by recording oral history interviews with pioneers who have impacted the medium. The ongoing collection contains over 900 in-depth life histories with people in all professions both in front of, and behind the camera. Since 2007, I have also conducted many of these interviews (with Samantha Bee, Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Bourdain, George Carlin, Anderson Cooper, Ann Curry, Vince Gilligan, Lou Gossett, Jr, Buck Henry, Jorge Ramos, Cokie Roberts, Ted Sarandos, Nina Shaw, Yeardley Smith, Tracey Ullman, and many more). We make these interviews available to fans and scholars worldwide via our award-winning, fully-indexed, time-stamped, curated website, http://TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews In 2018, I initiated a digital preservation plan for the 20+ year old collection to preserve and make this collection accessible for future generations. In 2022 we were awarded the NEH Preservation & Access Implementation Grant to fund the digitization and storage of our collection.

North Hollywood, Ca

In 2008 I oversaw the cataloging of the Archive's video oral history interview collection. Over 3,000 hours of footage were digitized and ingested via a custom-created CMS with time-stamping capability. I co-designed the award-winning website emmytvlegends.org featuring enhanced search capability across multiple fields and set up a clip licensing policy & procedure. I also produced and conducted interviews with television producers, writers, editors, performers, and industry professionals across every field of television production.

Prior to joining the Television Academy Foundation full-time, I was a freelance interviewer for their long running, long-format, oral history program. I researched and conducted interviews with director Andy Ackerman, writer Diane English, manager George Shapiro, and comedian George Carlin, among others.

Produced, shot and edited an award-winning rock documentary following the 20+year saga of NJ's Rye Coalition. Winner, Best Documentary NJ Film Festival, AMFM Festival, Kingston Film Festival, & more (www.ryecoalitionthemovie.com/press). Currently working on another independent documentary about 60's comedian and Steve Allen's head comedy writer, Bill Dana .

Glendale, Ca

Performed legal research, reviewed and prepared court documents and organized in-house research for this boutique business and intellectual property law firm.

Emerson College, Boston Ma

Co-founded and managed the nation's first Comedy Archives along with comedy legend Bill Dana (former head writer of the Steve Allen Show) and Emerson College Library Director Robert Fleming. We interviewed the legends of comedy (including Bea Arthur, Louis Black, Buck Henry, Jonathan Winters, Betty White, and over 60 more) about their craft. Negotiated/drafted all appearance and location releases. Catalogued and arranged archival finding aids for the interviews and personal archival collections. https://www.emerson.edu/departments/archives-special-collections/collections/american-comedy-archives

Greater Boston Area

Archivist for Federal District Judge David A. Mazzone's collection at the Urban Harbors Institute in Boston. Processed collection of documents related to U.S. District Court Judge A. David Mazzone’s 20-year association with the Boston Harbor Cleanup legal case. Organized, analyzed and prepared archival access to the Judge’s memorandum and chamber papers. Created a documentary film, “A History of the Boston Harbor Cleanup”; managed all phases of production including conception, filming, editing. Interviewed Senator Edward Kennedy, Former MA governor Michael Dukakis, former EPA Director Michael Deland, and others, and Judge Mazzone (Urban Harbors Institute, 2005).

Greater New York City Area

Researched/Procured stock footage from NARA/ LOC and other sources, managed rights clearances for this award-winning documentary about the reporters who covered the Vietnam War. Produced by Thomas D. Herman and Bestor Cram.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Associate Producer, Assistant Editor (AVID and FCP), Segment Shoot Producer, and Assistant Director on this 16-part PBS Annenberg-funded series "American Passages: A Literary Survey": a video course on American literature for college-level instruction with instructor and study guides. The course takes an expanded view of American literary movements, bringing in a diversity of voices and tracing the continuity among them.

Researched footage, booked crews, and edited segments for “MSNBC Reports: Gay Hollywood Comes Out” and Tom Brokaw’s “The Greatest Generation II”.

Producer of the WFMU Record Convention in NYC, the largest record fair on the east coast with over 3,000 in attendance. Planned fundraiser concerts for the nation's oldest freeform station with artists such as Thurston Moore, Soundlab, Fab Five Freddy, Andre Williams, The Monks, DJ Steinski, and many more. Co-produced a 3-day fundraising event at Brooklyn's Smackmellon Studios and at iconic NYC clubs such as the Knitting Factory.

New York, Ny

Produced video shoots and headed research for Diane Sawyer's independent production company on a newsmagazine series about fashion, women and the workplace.

Worked alongside Director Stephen Stept and Producer John Heus on the film "The Hoover Dam", part of THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (PBS) which won a Writer's Guild Award 1998. Conducted all research, managed office, Assistant Editor on AVID, Associate Producer, Line producer. Secured all rights, clearances, and prepared post-production documentation to WGBH in Boston.

New York, New York, United States

Produced live "letter" segments for Nick Jr's interactive show "Blues' Clues" and booked talent and locations for the program's first season

Auburn, Me

Editor for the 11pm nightly news. Wrote copy for on-air scripts on the weekend segments and assisted producer in fact-checking. Responsible for organizing archival footage library and its database.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Law

Activities and Societies: Recipient, Paul W. Wildman Scholarship. Recipient, CALI Award (Information Privacy Law 2013). Recipient, Witkin.

Master Of Library & Information Science (Mlis), Archives

Activities and Societies: Beta Phi Mu, Estelle Jussim Award for the Visual Arts

Ba, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: WRBC radio (DJ and news director), BCTV (president and producer)