Vivian Kleiman
Vivian Kleiman is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. She has received a National Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Research and executive produced an Academy Award nominated documentary.
Also an educator, she served as Adjunct Faculty at Stanford University's Graduate Program in Documentary Film and Video Production from 1995–2004.
Kleiman was a long time collaborator with black gay filmmaker Marlon Riggs. They founded in 1991, which creates and distributes films about the experiences of African Americans. Directed by Riggs, their 1992 film Color Adjustment screened at the Sundance Film Festival and received the International Documentary Association's IDA Award, the Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians and the George Foster Peabody Award in 1993.Selected filmography
- ' 28 minutes, 2017
- Last Day of Freedom, animated documentary/transmedia project. KQED Truly California, 32 minutes, 2015. Academy Award nominated
- ' PBS, ITVS, one hour, 2012.
- ', 74 minutes, 2007.
- ' PBS, ITVS
- ' PBS, ITVS, one hour, 2007.
- ' PBS, ITVS, one hour, 2006.
- PBS, POV and ITVS, one hour, 2000.
As producer
- ' PBS, ITVS, one hour, 1998.
- ' PBS, ITVS, one hour, 1996.
- Color Adjustment PBS, POV, 90 minutes, PBS, POV series, 90-minutes, 1992
- Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey 1982
As producer/director
- '
- ' Commissioned by the Family Acceptance Project, 21 minutes, 2013
- * Audience Award, LA Outfest; Best Documentary Short, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
- ' Commissioned by the Family Acceptance Project, 16 minutes, 2011
- Profiles of Change Commissioned by Rubicon Programs, 8 minutes, 2011
- ' Commissioned by the Family Acceptance Project, 8 minutes, 2010
- ' PBS, 3 x 60 minute series, 2005
- ' 16 minutes, 1992.
- Out For The Count Commissioned by Lavender Message Project, 14 minutes, 1992.
- Ein Stehaufmannchen Commissioned by Shana Films, 40 minutes, 1991.
As consultant or writer
- Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics & Men, Story Consultant, 4 part series, Showtime, 2019
- Strike Anywhere Films - feature-length documentary, Writer, 2018
- ' - Consulting Producer, 85 minutes, PBS, 2011.
- ' - Consulting Writer, one hour, PBS, 2005.
- - 100-minutes, PBS, 2002.
Selected awards
- George Foster Peabody Award
- National Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Individual Research
- Outstanding Documentary Award, International Documentary Association
- Erik Barnouw Award, Organization of American Historians
- National Owl Award, AARP
- Prized Pieces, National Black Programmers Association
- Crystal Heart Award, Heartland Film Festival
