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'{{Multiple issues|POV =November 2010|advert =November 2010|notability =November 2010}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2010}} '''Andrea Kalin''' is a [[Documentary film|documentary]] [[Film director|director]], [[Film producer|producer]] and the founder and executive producer of [[Spark Media]]. == Background == Born in [[Boston]], Kalin graduated Cum Laude from [[American University]],<ref name=autogenerated3>[http://www.sparkmedia.org/ht/d/sp/i/182/pid/182 Spark Media<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and began her career in journalism as a radio reporter in the Middle East.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> == Documentary Films -- Spark Media -- Awards == Andrea Kalin is a documentary filmmaker, principal and founder of Spark Media, Inc. She is a writer, producer and director. She began her documentary career as a newsreel researcher on the film "Congress" for filmmaker [[Ken Burns]].<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272052/fullcredits#cast</ref> In 1989, she began the multimedia production and outreach firm [[Spark Media]].<ref>[http://sparkmedia.org/ht/d/sp/i/182/pid/182 Spark Media<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Her films focus on social issues. Since its founding Kalin’s films have garnered more than 55 major industry awards and nominations<ref name=autogenerated2>[http://sparkmedia.org/ht/d/sp/i/185/pid/185 Spark Media<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> including a prime time Emmy [[Gracie Allen]] Award, CINEs, EdPress Awards of Distinction, [[The Chris Awards]],<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.chrisawards.org/pages/festivals/1997festival/97bronze.html The Chris Awards - The Columbus Film and Video Festival<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> a Paul Robeson award a Gold UNESCO medal at the NY Festivals, the 2004 Erik Barnouw award from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for best documentary concerning American History and a nomination from the Writers Guild of America for outstanding achievement in television (documentary non current events) for "Soul of a People: Writing America's Story". among others.”<ref name=autogenerated2 /><ref>http://IMDB.org</ref><ref name="wga.org">http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3888</ref> In the Fall 2002 issue, Andrea Kalin was featured in an article in the magazine ''Jewish Women International'' as one of "10 Jewish Women to Watch". Her picture appeared on the cover of that issue<ref>[http://jw.tmghosting.com/articles/04Fall02/p18c.asp]</ref> Her début feature-length documentary film ''Partners of the Heart'' was inspired by Katie McCabe's [[Washingtonian]] article "Like Something the Lord Made".<ref>http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/dome/0301/close_up.cfm</ref><ref>[http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/5649.html Washingtonian]</ref> The documentary aired on [[PBS]]’s [[American Experience]] in February 2003 and was rebroadcast in March 2005. Narrated by [[Morgan Freeman]] <ref>[http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2003-01/partners.html Partners of the Heart<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ''''Partners of the Heart'''' went on to win the Erik Barnouw Award for Best History Documentary in 2004.<ref>[http://www.oah.org/activities/awards/barnouw/winners.html OAH Erik Barnouw Award Winners<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Because of her work on ''Partners of the Heart'', Andrea Kalin became the Executive Consultant to the HBO Feature Film ''"Something the Lord Made"'', which was the feature film version of the ''Partners of the Heart'' story.<ref>http://www.hbo.com/films/stlm/cast/andrea_kalin.html</ref> ''Something the Lord Made'' went on to win a prime time Emmy. Kalin directed and produced "[[The Pact (2006 documentary)|The Pact]]", a feature-length documentary based on the New York Times bestseller book{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} ''The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream''.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/dp/157322216X Amazon.com: The Pact: George Jenkins, Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, Lisa Frazier Page: Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The film chronicles the true life story of [[The Three Doctors (motivational speakers)|Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, and George Jenkins]], who made a pact in their inner-city high school in [[Newark, New Jersey]], to find a way to go to college and then medical school.<ref>[http://thepactthemovie.com The PACT - The Movie - The Pact DVD - The Pact Documentary<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ''The Pact'' won Best Documentary in the Boston International Film Festival ",<ref>[http://www.upf.tv/upf06/Films/PrinceAmongSlaves/Biographies/tabid/253/Default.aspx Unity Productions Foundation > Films > Prince Among Slaves > Film > Biographies<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and aired on public television in 2008. ”<ref>[http://www.aptonline.org/aptweb.nsf/vOtherDocs/Press+Release-2008+May+Releases American Public Television: 2008 May Releases<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> She also directed, produced, and wrote [[Prince Among Slaves (film)|''Prince Among Slaves'']],<ref>[http://upf.tv/upf06/Films/PrinceAmongSlaves/Film/Biographies/tabid/253/Default.aspx Unity Productions Foundation > Films > Prince Among Slaves > Film > Biographies<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> a feature-length documentary based on the biography of the same name about African Muslim-prince-turned-American-[[slave]] [[Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori]] written by [[Northern Virginia Community College]] history professor Terry Alford.<ref>[http://upf.tv/upf06/Films/PrinceAmongSlaves/tabid/77/Default.aspx UPF :: Prince Among Slaves Official Movie Website - Narrated By Mos Def<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195042239 Amazon.com: Prince among Slaves (Oxford Paperback Reference): Terry Alford: Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ''Prince'' won numerous awards including the Best Documentary of 2007 by the American Black Film Festival,<ref>[http://www.upf.tv/upf06/Films/PrinceAmongSlaves/tabid/77/Default.aspx UPF :: Prince Among Slaves Official Movie Website - Narrated By Mos Def<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> the ITVA DC Peer Award (lighting, sound desing, costume desing, and music), Cine Golden Eagle, Grand Goldie Award<ref>http://www.upf.tv/upf06/Documents/Prince/lesson%20plan.pdf</ref> and premiered on PBS on February 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.i-newswire.com/pr146532.html. Free Press Release Distribution Center - I-Newswire.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Kalin’s other select film credits include: ''Too Brief a Child'', a short film about adolescent brides that was featured in the United Nations Association Film Festival,<ref>[http://www.unaff.org/2005/f_too.html UNAFF 2005 : Films : Too Brief a Child<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ''A Voice of Her Own'', shot on location in [[Cambodia]], [[Bangladesh]] and the [[Philippines]],<ref>[http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/videos/SA_documentaries.html South Asia Documentaries at the Van Pelt Library<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> which won a Chris Award,<ref name=autogenerated1 /> ''Battered Lives, Broken Trust'', a program and outreach campaign on domestic violence, and ''Breaking the Poverty Cycle: Investing in Early Childhood Care and Development''.<ref>[http://sparkmedia.org/ht/d/sp/i/184/pid/184 Spark Media<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.iadb.org/sds/soc/publication/publication_173_556_e.htm Battered Lives, Broken Trust: When Men Abuse Women;<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> "''Talking Through Walls'', how a struggle to build a mosque [in Vorhees New Jersey] united a community. Kalin directed, co-produced, and co-wrote a [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] and Smithsonian Networks funded documentary about the [[Federal Writers Project]]<ref>[http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/publicmay2006.html Division of Public Programs, May 2006<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> titled ''''Soul of a People: Writing America's Story'''', which includes interviews with notable project alumni [[Studs Terkel]], [[Stetson Kennedy]], Richard Ford, JK Simsons, and American historians [[Douglas Brinkley]] and David Bradley. The documentary is narrated by Patrica Clarkson. Soul of a People premiered on [[Smithsonian Networks]] in September 2009<ref>[http://sparkmedia.org/ht/d/sp/i/236/pid/236 Spark Media<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The documentary includes footage from the Library of Congress & American Folklife Center, photographs revealing personal glimpses of the period and the FWP Writers, excerpts from the Project’s life history interviews, slave narratives, and folk recordings preserved on acetate disk, and interviews with Project alumni, the film centers on the struggle between conflicting visions of America. Soul of A People: Writing America's Story, which Andrea Kalin co-wrote with David Taylor and Olive Emma Bucklin, was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for outstanding achievement in television (documentary non-current events category) in December 2009. http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx? <ref name="wga.org"/> \id=3888<ref>http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/smithsonian/show_soul_people_about.do</ref><ref>[http://www.sparkmedia.org/ht/d/ContentDetails/i/4523/TPL/Vault/pid/4521#]</ref> The American Library Association is screening the documentary as part of the film's outreach nationwide.<ref>http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2008/march2008/pposoul.cfm</ref> Soul of A People had a special screening in December 2009 at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. She also produced and co-directed a documentary on the Smithsonian Folkways record label called ''Worlds of Sound: The Ballad Of Folkways'', which premiered on [[Smithsonian Networks]] on October 25, 2009.<ref>http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/smithsonian/show_world_sound.do</ref> In addition to documentaries, Kalin also produced and directed a comedy concert film featuring three Muslim-American comedians, titled "Allah Made Me Funny", which was theatrically released in seventeen markets.<ref>[http://www.allahmademefunny.com/]</ref> Recently Andrea Kalin and her company Spark Media won 9 TIVA-DC Peer Awards including "Best of DC", a gold, silver and bronze in the documentary film category.<ref>//http://www.tbd.com/blogs/tbd-arts/2010/11/federal-writers-project-doc-takes-top-honors-at-peer-awards-video--4684.html</ref><ref>http://www.tivadc.org/index.php?/Peer-Awards/peer-awards-winners-2010.html</ref> In 2010, Andrea Kalin had 4 films in development, including "Dancing with NED", La Lucha and a film about Stetson Kennedy.<ref>http://www.sparkmedia.org</ref> Andrea Kalin is a member of the Writers Guild of America East (WGA).<ref>http://www.wgaeast.org/index.php?id=42</ref> In 2009, Andrea Kalin received a nomination of WGA for Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story, with David Taylor and Emma Olive Bucklin . <ref>http://www.wgaeast.org/index.php?id=182&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=2222&tx_ttnews[backPid]=-1&cHash=7477035eba38ff8b80112ee852b1b487</ref> ==Filmography (Select)== * ''[http://www.thepactthemovie.com/ The Pact]'' * ''[[Prince Among Slaves Film|Prince Among Slaves]]'' * ''[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/partners/ Partners of the Heart]'' * ''Talking Through Walls'' * ''[http://www.allahmademefunny.com/ Allah Made Me Funny]'' * ''Asia’s Water Crisis: The Struggle Within Each Drop'' * ''Battered Lives, Broken Trust: When Men Abuse Women'' * ''Too Brief a Child: Voices of Married Adolescents'' * ''Breaking the Poverty Cycle: Investing in Early Childhood'' * ''Bridges: Southeast Asians’ American Journey'' * ''Wired for Change: Information Technology for Development in the Americas'' * ''A Voice of Her Own: Women and Economic Change in Asia'' * ''From Rage to Recovery: Society’s Search for Peace'' * ''World Bank “HUNGER” Public Service Announcement'' * ''The Soul of a People: Writing America's Story '' * ''Worlds of Sound: The Ballad Of Folkways'' ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> |name= Kalin, Andrea |alternative names= |short description= |date of birth= |place of birth= |date of death= |place of death= }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalin, Andrea}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Boston, Massachusetts]] [[Category:American University alumni]]'