About

371 Productions produces feature length documentaries and creates social change outreach and engagement projects built around our films. We also make TV, commercial media, educational media and technology projects for a variety of clients.

WHO ARE WE?

 

Brad Lichtenstein

is an award-winning filmmaker and the president of 371 Productions.  He has been working in documentary production since 1992.  He’s in post-production on his next film, As Goes Janesville, a documentary about how a town survives and reinvents amid the loss of their century-old GM plant and the worst recession since the 30′s. It will air on the PBS series Independent Lens in October of 2012. He’s developing technology and transmedia projects for the common good, including What We Got; DJ Spooky’s Quest for the Commons. And he’s developing Once You’re Dead, a film that compares America’s dominant culture of death denial to how other cultures around the world deal with death.

Before making his own films, Brad associate produced FRONTLINE’s Peabody award-winning presidential election year special, Choice ’96, and Lumiere Production’s PBS series, With God on Our Side: The History of the Religious Right.  With Lumiere, he produced and directed André’s Lives, a portrait of the “Jewish Schindler;” “Safe”, about domestic violence, “Caught in the Crossfire”, about Arab-Americans after 9/11, and the BBC/Court TV co-production of Ghosts of Attica, about the infamous 1971 prison uprising and aftermath, for which he was awarded a Dupont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism. His film, Almost Home, a PBS Independent Lens documentary about people who live and work in an elder-care community, continues to be featured in workshops on aging and caregiving 5 years since its premiere broadcast. Brad’s work is supported by the Blue Mountain Center, Creative Capital, Helen Bader Foundation, the HKH Foundation, the Independent Television Service (ITVS), the International Documentary Association, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Retirement Research Foundation, the Sheldon and Marianne Lubar Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.

Brad taught documentary production for 5 years at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he founded doc|UWM, a documentary film center that provides students with professional documentary experiences. Brad’s films can be seen in theaters, at festivals, in museums, and on television all over the world.

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Brian Glazer

is 371′s executive producer. His career in film and television includes producing the 3rd season of the acclaimed Sundance Channel series, Iconoclasts. Additionally, he oversaw post-production for FLOW: For Love of Water which was selected for competition in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Throughout his career, he s worked on such diverse projects as Will Play Extra, a docu-series he developed for IFC about a casting agency and the commercial production industry; four shows for VOOM S Gallery HD profiling artists Barton Benes, Deborah Kass and Patricia Cronin and the art and architecture of New York s famed Woodlawn Cemetery; and Ghetto Sims, an animated sketch for the hit Comedy Central series Chappelle’s Show.

Brian has overseen development and production for a variety of shows including TLC s series Cover Shot; Too Hot Not To Handle, a documentary special about Global Warming for HBO; the highly regarded Barbara Walters Special and intimate look at adoption, Born In My Heart: A Love Story; Fat Like Me, an ABC special about childhood obesity; and The Way Home, a pilot for the Hallmark Channel about reconciliation and forgiveness. He has managed production on Three Sisters, the HBO documentary about one family s battle with the ALS (Lou Gherig s disease); and he managed production and the national theatrical rollout for Gay Sex in the 70s, director Joseph Lovett s critically acclaimed feature documentary chronicling gay life in New York during the post-Stonewall and pre-AIDS era.

He was Head of Broadcast Development & Production at Lovett Productions for six years. He continues to work as a freelance producer on a variety of television commercials, industrials and independent and Hollywood features. Among the most notable projects he s worked on was the feature film Unbreakable, directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Brian holds a B.A. in Film and Media Arts from Temple University. He resides in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, daughter and dog.

 

Nicole Docta

is currently the co-producer of As Goes Janesville. She co-produced and edited Chosen Towns: The Story of Jews in Wisconsin’s Small Communities, which was made with doc|UWM. She also co-produced and co-directed A King in Milwaukee, a short documentary about David Greenberger who talks to people with dementia and turns those conversations into music, which he performed with the Paul Cebar Ensemble live at the Pabst Theater. She is the associate producer for What We Got: DJ Spooky’s Journey to the Commons, a documentary-fiction hybrid to name, claim, and protect our Commons. Among other things, Nicole keeps the office going and makes sure nobody forgets anything.

 

Arthur Ircink

is the founder of the Emmy-nominated television show, Wisconsin Foodie. Foodie tells the stories behind the foods we eat and airs on Wisconsin’s PBS affiliates. His goal is to make local television “relevant and cool”, while raising the bar for production quality in the local market. He has worked in the film and video industry for over a decade producing commercials, music videos, documentary films and television shows. In 2008 he produced and edited a documentary film called “The Super Noble Brothers”, a story about a family of record collectors. The film had an excellent run nationally on the festival circuit. He will be editing a documentary about Finding Penelope, a play by Anne Basting based on the Odyssey as told from Penelope’s point of view. It was performed in a nursing home and featured Soujourn Theater and residents in the roles.

 

Colin Sytsma

started as an intern with 371 Productions and now is our production associate. Currently he is working on As Goes Janesville, a feature documentary telling the story of laid off workers and town leaders as they reinvent their lives after their General Motors plant closed. It will air on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2012. He recently co-produced and editing Everyone Leads, a video book trailer for Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz book release and tour. Colin does field sound for a variety of 371′s projects. Outside of 371 Colin enjoys filming board sports and participating in them as much as his body allows.

 

 

Keil Mitchell

is an intern at 371 Productions while he is earning a BFA in film and a minor in history from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. Most of his tasks revolve around 371′s most recent production, As Goes Janesville, for which he preps footage for post-production. Keil enjoys playing college club football, creating his own short documentaries and dabbling in the darkroom with 16mm film.