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Last  Update
01/22/2013

 

   Specializing in documentaries and other non-fiction film and video,  Wilkman Productions, Inc. is an award-winning production company founded in 1971. Our full-service facilities are located in Hollywood, California.
   
 
 

 

 
   
 

WHAT'S NEW

   
  Research and preliminary production is underway for a 90 minute documentary entitled Performing the Past: The Ramona Outdoor Play, Historical Pageantry and American Identity. Established in 1923, the Ramona Pageant, performed each spring in Hemet, California, is the oldest and largest outdoor play in the United States, part of a tradition of American community-based dramas that began in the 19th century.  Focusing on Ramona, a drama set during the United States conquest of California in 1840s, Performing the Past explores the nature of history itself and how an evolving present can lead to new more inclusive perspectives on the past, especially as it relates to Native American and Latino contributions to the American historical narrative.     
       
Wilkman Productions is in development for a 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.  
 
Our seven-part series  Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood, which aired on Turner Classic Movies, chronicles the history of American motion pictures and the lives of pioneering movie makers from the 1890s to 1970. Nominated for three Emmys, the series was chosen as one of the top ten television programs of 2010 by the Wall St. Journal and the NY Daily News. The DVD set is now available.  Click here for more information.  
 
  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.    
 
  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    
 
  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    
 
  As part of a major symposium, hosted by the Lawrence and Kristina Dodge Media and the Public Interest Institute at Chapman University, Wilkman Productions produced a five-part documentary,  At Issue: Immigration, an informative examination of the most reliable facts concerning the issue of immigration in the United States.  For further information and DVDs email: jon@wilkman.com.    
 
Jon and Nancy have completed a major illustrated history of Los Angeles.  Entitled Picturing Los Angeles, the book contains more than 550 photographs and 70,000 words of text and can be ordered online or purchased online or at a bookstore near you.  New paperback edition due in Fall 2011.  
 
  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: jon@wilkman.com    
 
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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