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Specializing in documentaries
and other non-fiction film and video, Wilkman Productions,
Inc.
is an award-winning production company owned by the husband and wife
team, Jon and Nancy Wilkman. Founded in 1971, our full-service
facilities are located in Hollywood, California.
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Wilkman Productions is developing
a 90-minute documentary entitled "Performing the Past: The Ramona
Outdoor Play, Historical Pageantry and American Identity."
Centering on the oldest and largest outdoor play in America,
the Ramona Pageant,
this documentary explores the interplay between fact and fiction,
myth and history, and how communities have affected the perception
of the past through performances of historical outdoor dramas, from
the turn of the 19th century to today. It also tells the story
of how Native Americans and Latinos are beginning to play a more
active role in creating a more inclusive American historical
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Pre-production has begun on a new documentary
series about the history, contents
and influence of Liberty
Magazine, the lively American periodical that published the work
of many of the world's most famous writers and public figures from
the 1920s to 1950, offering a rare and entertaining window into
three amazing decades of American life and culture. |
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Chosen
as one of the top ten television programs of 2010 by the Wall St.
Journal and the NY Daily News and nominated for three Emmys (Best
Non Fiction Series, Best Non Fiction Writing and Best Narrator), our seven-part
series Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood,
produced for Turner Classic Movies with Ostar Enterprises, chronicles the history of
American motion pictures and the lives of pioneering movie makers from the 1890s to 1970. The
DVD set is now available. Click
here for more information. |
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Jon and Nancy's book,
Los Angeles: A Pictorial Celebration, a visual survey on the
modern city, illustrated with new color photographs, is available online and in bookstores. |
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Wilkman Productions produced four thirty-minute documentaries to mark the 100th Anniversary of the
Port of Los Angeles.
This series, The Port of Los Angeles: A History, includes excerpts from more than 100 interviews with people who lived the history of
the communities of San Pedro and Wilmington and helped to create America's busiest international harbor.
It includes rare film and photographs that put this
little-known story into its proper and important place in the
history of the United States and the growth of global trade from
1542 to the present. DVD available
from
www.grandvision.org |
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Wilkman
Productions' 60-minute documentary, Chicano Rock!
The Sounds of East
Los Angeles, was produced with major production grants from Latino Public Broadcasting,
the California Council for
the Humanities and the Skirball Foundation. It aired on national PBS
and was the winner of the 2009 Best Documentary at the Rasquache Festival of the U.S. Latino Experience in Film and Art. Order a DVD from
www.shoppbs.org or
Amazon.com |
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A paperback edition of Jon and Nancy's
landmark illustrated history of Los Angeles,
Picturing Los Angeles,
was released in 2011. It
is available online and at a bookstore near you.
Picturing Los Angeles contains more than 550 photographs and 70,000 words of
text. |
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DVD's are available of the
Wilkman Productions documentary, "With Heart and Hand: The
Restoration of the Gamble House." Three years in the
making, this one-hour video explores the lives of architects Charles
and Henry Greene, as it documents the exterior restoration and
conservation of the 1908 Gamble
House, a masterpiece of American Arts and Crafts architecture.
To order yours, email: nancy@wilkman.com |
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Jon and Nancy and our
St. Francis Dam
documentary are featured on
NPR's "All Things Considered."
The Wilkmans are also preparing a major book on the subject entitled
Floodpath: The Forgotten Tragedy of the St. Francis Dam
Disaster.. |
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