Stephen Ives founded
Insignia Films in 1988 to pursue his filmmaking interests.
Since its inception, the company has been a focus for an impressive
array of documentary projects.
Ives' first film, Lindbergh,
premiered the third season of the PBS series American
Experience and has since been rebroadcast a remarkable
four times on national public television. After serving as
a consulting producer on Ken Burns' series The Civil War
and Baseball, Ives then spent the next five years
producing and directing the landmark twelve and-one-half-hour,
eight-part series The West. This acclaimed history
of the American West was the centerpiece of the PBS fall season
in 1996, and was seen by more than 38 million people nationwide.
Since The West, Ives
and Insignia Films have been responsible for the production
of two cinema verité films about American arts institutions.
The feature-length film Cornerstone, about one of
America's most innovative and provocative theatrical ensembles,
aired on the HBO network in the fall of 1999. The Amato
Opera, Ives' film portrait of the world's smallest opera
company, aired nationally on PBS in December of 2001.
More recently, Ives and his team
at Insignia Films produced the Emmy-winning Seabiscuit,
a documentary portrait of the Depression-era thoroughbred
champion that aired on the American Experience in 2002, and
Reporting America at War, an Emmy-nominated three-hour
series about the history of American war correspondence, broadcast
nationally on PBS in the fall of 2003.
The goals of Insignia Films are
to continue to develop a wide-ranging and distinctive body
of documentary films, and to develop feature film projects
for public television based on American historical stories.
Insignia Films is based in New York City. The company regularly
co-produces films with the nations leading public television
stations, including WETA-TV, Washington, WBGH, Boston, and
WNET, New York.
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