Sheila Curran Bernard, filmmaker and writer

Project creation, development, oversight, writing, story analysis

Sheila Curran Bernard is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer, filmmaker, and consultant with expertise in using the tools of dramatic storytelling and structure to enhance the power, rigor, and appeal of fact-based media. Bernard has played a leading role in creating and overseeing projects for national and international broadcast, theatrical release, and museum and classroom use -- work that is often strategically leveraged to enhance impact
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In development:

When Harlem Was In Vogue

Dramatic series built on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis.

Now streaming online: Slavery by Another Name (writer)

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas A. Blackmon;
Executive producer Catherine Allan (TPT);
co-executive producer Douglas Blackmon;
director Sam Pollard.
Broadcast premiere, PBS, February 13, 2012

Watch online,
http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/watch/

Free online press, classroom, and community materials,
including photos, click here; reviews, click here

2012 release: Inside Story (story by, shared)

Executive producers Aric Noboa & Harriet Gavshon;
screenplay by Darrel
Bristow-Bovey and Sunu Gonera and Gillian Breslin;
directed by Rolie Nikiwe.
Official website, click here.
Broadcast premiere, SABC1, December 8 2012, launching sub-Saharan Africa roll-out.

Website

2011 release: Bad Blood (writer, shared)

Producer/director, Marilyn Ness
Written by Sheila Curran Bernard and Marilyn Ness

Website

Polish translation, Documentary Storytelling, 3rd edition

Published in Warsaw in November 2011 by Wydawnictwo Wojciech Marzec.

First edition also available in Portuguese
Second edition also available in Korean and Chinese.
Third edition to be available in Korean and Chinese in 2015.