CHARLIE STEINER RESUME
Charlie Steiner is an award-winning documentary producer, videographer and photojournalist
EDUCATION
University
of Pennsylvania B.A. 1968
Boston
University School of Graduate Medicine 1969-1970
PHOTOGRAPHY
Steiner has been a widely published photojournalist since 1969. His photos have appeared in the major magazines of Europe, Japan, North and South America, including LIFE, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, TIME, Paris Match and Stern. He is best known for his coverage of the Shah of Iran in exile [1979 - 80 for Paris Match] and the last years of Marcos and the People Power Revolution in the Philippines [1981-90 for Newsweek].
Steiner has an extensive archive of photos he made during the years of protest and pop culture in the 60's and 70's for magazines and album jackets: Bob Dylan and Robert Kennedy to Jagger, Warhol, Yippies and Zappa. He has been a photo editor [Chief Executive Magazine, Penn Comment] and photography teacher. Steiner did industrial/architectural work, and continues as a fine art photographer.
ONE-PERSON
EXHIBITS: New York, Boston, Tokyo
AWARDS:
Industrial Photography Magazine, American Institute of Graphic Arts
PRINT JOURNALISM
Steiner's
articles on political affairs in the US, the Middle East and Asia have been
published in the San Francisco Chronicle,
Scholastic magazines, Playboy Japan and the Far Eastern Economic Review, the
latter a cover-story exclusive.
PHOTOGRAPHY
AND VIDEO TEACHING
Boston
Model Cities After-School Program 1970 -1973, Teacher
City
University of New York 1973 - 1976,
Adjunct Assistant Professor
New
School for Social Research 1974 -
1976, Member of the Faculty
International
Center of Photography 1975 - 1977,
Teacher
New York City Board of Education 1997 – 2003 Media Consultant and Teacher
TELEVISION / VIDEO
Since 1985 Steiner has been an independent documentary producer and videographer. A pioneer in the use of small video cameras for broadcast, his footage has aired on the newscasts of ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CBC and Asahi TV - including exclusive reports on insurrections and cultural upheaval in the Philippines, Poland and the USSR.
The focus of his own documentaries is the relation between culture and politics. NOTHING TO LOSE, about the culture of protest among young people in Poland, foretold the collapse of Communism. HOME BASE looks at the legacy of American colonialism in the Philippines, while SOMETHING HAPPENED examines the multiple cultures of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltic republics during and after the velvet revolutions of the early 1990's.
Steiner also makes documentaries about - and with - performing artists. AMI PAGOL (I AM CRAZY) is about Bengali mystic musicians. He has been working with Japanese avant-garde dancer Min Tanaka since 1979 and has worked with a variety of dancers, musicians and performance artists (Penny Arcade, Yoshiko Chuma, dancenoise, John Jasperses, The Klezmatics, Cecil Taylor, Twyla Tharpe, Cathy Weis and many others). In addition, he produced a yearlong half-hour weekly program on cable television, presenting new video documentaries by himself and other producers.
Steiner is a major producer/director of dance films and received the Pew Fellowship in Dance/Media. He was commissioned to produce a film “Music of the Mystics,” included in a feature for PBS on the World Festival of Sacred Music in Los Angeles.
GRANTS
AND AWARDS
Asian
Cultural Council. Production Grant,
1987. AMI PAGOL (I Am Crazy)
Hallwalls
New Video Journalism Festival, 1990. Special
Jury Award. NOTHING TO LOSE
American
Film and Video Festival, 1990. Finalist.
NOTHING TO LOSE
Jewish
Video Competition, 1995. 2nd Prize. UMAN UMAN ROSH HASHANAH
Member,
Board of Directors (1998- ) Dance
Film Association
Pew
Fellowship in Dance/Media, 2000, UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance
Included
in dancer Oguri’s Irvine Fellowship in Dance 2002
VIDEO
IN PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
New
York Library for the Performing Arts Dance Collection (more than 25 films on
dance)
Museum
of Jewish Heritage
Judah
Magnes Museum
SOME RECENT PRODUCTIONS
Video
Designer for multimedia performance “If I Were You” at The Kitchen, NYC 1998
Video
installation “Listening to TV” in group show “Bad Science” at DTW, NYC
1999
Lecturer
and instructor on filming dance at Silesian Dance Festival, Poland 2000-2001
Included
in Irvine Fellowship in Dance with dancer Oguri, Joshua Tree, CA
2001-2002
Produced
video pieces in Sarajevo, Bosnia for School of Hard Knocks LaMaMa production
2002
Video projections for dancer Yin Mei at the Asia Society, NYC 2002