Chuck Schultz(I)

In 2022, Chuck returned to the Heartland International Film Festival with "When My Sleeping Dragon Woke" (2022) where his film (producer) "A Day At a Time," a candid portrayal of a family raising twin girls affected with cerebral palsy, won Best Documentary in 1993. "When My Sleeping Dragon Woke" was featured in the International Documentary Association's DocuClub series (2020). In "The Last Crop" (2016), he explored an aging couple's struggle to ensure their farm's future in California's Central Valley. Chuck was co-director/producer of "5 Days in July" (2007), a dual-screen projection installation revisiting the 1967 Newark riots/rebellion. Exhibitions include Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; Birmingham Civil Rights Institute; Debra Willis' 1968: Then & Now, New York University Tisch School of the Arts (2008); and the Urban Research screenings at the Directors Lounge exhibition in Berlin (2010). It won Director's Choice in the Black Maria Film Festival and Jury Award for Best Short at the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival. Chuck directed and produced Emmy-nominated screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson's NPR radio drama "Five Days in July" (2007) the PRX's 2007 Zeitfunk Award winner. "The Rural Studio" (2001), an ITVS LiNKS co-production, chronicled architect Samuel Mockbee and his students' work in Alabama's Black Belt, aired on PBS and was exhibited in The Whitney Museum of American Art 2002 Biennial and Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture 2006. Grantors: ITVS, National Endowment for the Arts, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and Alabama Humanities Alliance.