Staff
Amanda
Pollak
Producer
 Pollak has been producing, researching and writing highly acclaimed documentaries for Public Television since 1992. Her investigative skills were rewarded early on when she received an individual Emmy for her leading role in researching
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt, which the New York Daily News proclaimed to be "one of public television's proudest achievements." Since then, she has produced numerous films for PBS, among them the Emmy Award-winning
Truman;
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided;
Money and Power: The History of Business; and one hour of the five-hour scientific series,
The Secret Life of the Brain, which earned her an Emmy Award for producing. In 1995, Pollak returned to her specialty, historical narrative, by joining Insignia Films to produce
Reporting America at War. Heralded as "television that matters. . . a visual document of power and clarity" by the Los Angeles Times, Reporting America at War earned a Cine Golden Eagle Award and was a 2004 Emmy nominee for Best Documentary. With Insignia Films, she has gone on to produce a half-dozen films for PBS's acclaimed history series, American Experience, including
Las Vegas,
New Orleans,
Roads to Memphis, and
The Panama Canal. She was the co-director (with Stephen Ives) of
Know Thyself, the fourth episode of PBS's Faces of America with Skip Gates, and is currently co-directing the feature-length documentary, The Diplomats and producing a biography of George Armstrong Custer for American Experience.
Lauren DeFilippo
Associate Producer
DeFilippo joined Insignia Films after receiving her M.A. in English and American Literature from New York University in 2008. Beginning as an assistant editor and researcher for Kit Carson, she has since worked as the assistant editor on
Roads to Memphis, and as associate editor for
The Panama Canal. DeFilippo has also played a role in the post-production of The Diplomats. She is presently associate producing a new film for the American Experience on George Armstrong Custer. Aside from her work at Insignia, DeFilippo directed and edited the short film I Rub NY and is currently developing a book about Mather and Company poster art.
Tom Hunt
Production Associate
Tom began his documentary filmmaking career as an intern for the FRONTLINE documentary, Football High in 2010. A graduate of the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, Hunt graduated in May 2010 with a degree in Cinema & Photography. As Production Associate, he is helping to coordinate productions on Grand Coulee Dam and The Constitution for American Experience, along with Retro Report.
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