Michael Shamberg

Michael Shamberg (born March 22, 1944)^[1] is an American film producer and former Time–Life correspondent.

His credits include Erin Brockovich, A Fish Called Wanda, Garden State, Gattaca, Pulp Fiction and The Big Chill. His production companies include Jersey Films, with Stacey Sher and Danny DeVito, and, as of 2015, Double Feature Films, with Stacey Sher.

In the 1960s and 1970s, counter-culture video collectives extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies. In 1970, Shamberg co-founded a video collective called Raindance Corporation, which published a newspaper-magazine called Radical Software. Raindance Corporation later became TVTV, or Top Value Television. Shamberg and his first wife Megan Williams were founding members of TVTV.^[2] The collective believed new technology could effect social change. An example was Shamberg's work on In Hiding: A Conversation with Abbie Hoffman, broadcast on Public-access television station WNET/13 in May 1975.^[2]

Shamberg described his approach as "guerrilla television" (the title of his 1971 book) because, despite its strategies and tactics similar to warfare, guerrilla television is non-violent and he saw it as a means to break through the barriers imposed by broadcast television, which he called beast television.

El documental de su grupo TVTV, Lord of the Universe , de 1974, ganó un premio DuPont-Columbia en 1975. ^{[ 3 ]} El grupo abogó por el uso de la cámara de video Portapak de Sony , introducida en 1967, para que se fusionara con el estilo del cine documental y la televisión, y más tarde fue pionero en el uso de video de 3/4" en sus trabajos.

Shamberg se graduó de la Universidad de Washington en St. Louis , donde se convirtió en miembro de Zeta Beta Tau . ^{[ 4 ] [ 5 ]} Shamberg es judío . ^{[ 6 ]}

Fue productor en todas las películas, salvo que se indique lo contrario.

• Michael Shamberg en IMDb