Biography

Jack Silberman has a BA (English) from Middlebury College, studied documentary film production at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (in a program run by Ricky Leacock) and has a Master's Degree from Harvard University.

He has been producing, directing, and writing non-fiction television for 3 decades and has extensive international experience, having worked on location in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Laos, Japan, Kenya, Tanzania, Borneo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Belize, Mexico, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, France, Brazil, the Virgin Islands, Israel and England, as well as the United States and Canada.

He has produced, directed and written more than 50 films for Canadian, American (PBS, HBO), British (Channel 4), French (ARTE) and Japanese (NHK) TV networks, as well as for National Geographic, Discovery Channel and others.

His documentary films have won more than 60 national and international awards (including many first place and 'best of festival' awards) and his productions have been broadcast on TV networks around the world.

His production 'Island of Whales' was narrated by Gregory Peck, broadcast on PBS (Nova) and won 17 national and international awards, including the Gemini Award for Best Canadian Documentary.

His film 'Bombies' was broadcast on PBS and won the Golden Gate Award (first place) at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Gold Award (first place) for best social / political documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival, Best of Festival at the Vermont International Film Festival, the Special Prize at Okomedia (Germany), the Swiss Prize (first place) at the Basel-Karlsruhe Film Festival and the Japan Prize.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous