Norman Berns Email & Phone Number

Feature and documentary production. Production and script consulting, business plan development, budgeting.

Albany, New York Area

The story of the out-of-work actor who built the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (literally, actually, physically) and then ran it (very successfully) for the next five years. And that's just one sweet note from a lifelong symphony of achievements.

If it's the technology that keeps broadcasting online or it's the people behind the technology, Broadcast Beat has it covered, interviewed, photographed, posted, hosted. reposted and covered yet again. Just back from record setting coverage for the official voice of NAB Show Live. On my way to next month's CES Week in New York.

Worldwide

Fundamental film courses taught online and on location. The wide-ranging series covers Budgeting, Scheduling, Script Prep, Writing Business Plans, Creating a Cash Flow, Finding Funding and Learning to Pitch. Classes are scheduled irregularly or offered on request.

Linkedin - www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=61268

One of LinkedIn's largest professional groups. Film & Television Professionals is a networking community for film execs, developers, creatives, actors, crews, investors and everyone else with a strong production background in indie or studio production.

A community for filmmakers, providing online classes in filmmaking, funding, budgeting and business plans. ReelGrok is rich with blogs, ads, film festivals, reviews, projects, jobs, discounted production software and great industry books. These are the tools and resources used by filmmakers from over 10,000 cities in 165 countries.

The film industry's largest online group devoted exclusively to the craft of budgeting.

I'm a member. Don't own it. Don't work there. Just one more dues-paying member....

Miami

Total immersion with the Miami-Dade Police SRT (SWAT) unit, film their training, exercises and live missions for the third season of this established French reality show. With Alain Filgarz.

Hawaiian Islands, London, Malta

Epic adventures of one of the world's greatest explorers. Family man, adventurer, navigator, cartographer and Commander of the Royal Navy, Cook famously wrote that he would go where no man had gone before.... Presumably, very boldly indeed. This major story of great adventure, enduring love, timeless discoveries, and heartbreaking loss has been put on hold.

Regular bi-weekly column, "Producer's Cut" looks deeply (or deeply askance) at indie survival in the film business.

Co-author with Jason Brubaker, Sheri Candler, Carole Dean, Gordon Firemark, Gary King, Tom Malloy, Peter D. Marshall, Jon Reiss and Jurgen Wolff. On the current state of filmmaking, from fund-raising to profit-taking. These are our collective ideas on how to survive and thrive in our ever changing industry.The book is available for instant download, free.

Greater St. Louis Area

Unifying the Mercy Hospital brand, impacting 38,000 healthcare employees in 200 communities across 4 states.

Producer-Director of the multi-part, federally funded PBS series, "The Writing Code," exploring the history, art and future of writing.

Interactive online classes in filmmaking, production budgeting and creating effective business plans.

Three part, federally-funded series, "The Writing Code" currently airing on PBS

Nine films for The Metropolitan Opera, three documentaries for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, several PBS 30-minute specials, commercials & documentaries for Mobil Oil as well as films for Yale University and The American Cancer Society.

Commercials & documentaries