PETER O. ALMOND (Producer) has combined a career in film and television with a public service background which includes six years as an urban neighborhood planner as well as recent service as delegate to various UN Summits, including the recent Earth Summit in Rio. After five years working in the streets of New Haven, CT, teaching City Planning at Yale and working in Mayor John Lindsay's administration, Almond launched his film and television career by producing three dozen films and reporting dozens of stories for the Emmy Award-winning 51st State, an innovative community-oriented program for WNET-TV He also co-produced a theatrical feature, "Watched," for Parko Productions.
From 1973 to 1978, Almond left TV to serve with the Carnegie Council on Children, a national Yale-based commission, where he headed studies in TV's influence on children and families, as well as collaborating with such network television producers as Norman Lear on implementing the findings of the council.
In 1976, Almond began a creative collaboration with Mikhail Bogin, a Russian film director, which produced several feature screenplays, and" A Private Life," a short theatrical drama which won a number of film awards and received the Blue Ribbon for best fiction film from the American Film Institute. He also co-wrote (with "A Private Life" co-writer Nancy Musser) "Staus" for PBS.
During the '80s, Almond wrote and produced a number of hour-long TV documentaries, including "Some kind of Hope," "At the Crossroads," and a two hour biography of Jane Fonda which was syndicated on 250 stations. He also wrote and produced "Village and Community" and "Changing the Charter" for public television, and began his long association with Armyan Bernstein. This collaboration included the feature project "Crystal Clear" at Warner Brothers, and "Life and Times," a pilot for CBS, at Witt/Thomas.
As producer, he developed "Raspad," a Russian-language theatrical feature film about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster which garnered numerous prizes and rave reviews, including the Gold Medallion at the Venice Film Festival.
As an independent producer based at Beacon, Almond and longtime collaborator Charles Burnett ("To Sleep With Anger") are developing a long-form drama on the life of U.S. Civil War figure Frederick Douglass for Turner Network Television. Almond is also executive producer and writer, with Burnett, of "Forever Free," a five-hour series for public television due in 1997.
Currently, Almond heads the boards of directors of several non-profit organizations and foundations in the areas of social justice and sustainable futures. Almond was a member of Yale University's 1963 undefeated rugby team.
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