Harry Wiland

Harry Wiland is a versatile producer with an Emmy Award-winning career as a television producer/director as well as a new media innovator in the field of educational multimedia courseware. He has produced and directed numerous specials on network, public and cable television, including the Emmy Awarded productions Showdown at The Palace, an internationally syndicated special, and Bridge over Troubled Waters. His documentaries and music specials such as White Gospel and Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends have led him to work with many of America's best known recording artists including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash.

Wiland was the co-founder and former CEO of Leonardo Internet, which developed educational multimedia software. He continues to be active in the new media arena and recently produced a number of distance learning programs for teacher training for Allyn & Bacon and KCET. Additionally he recently completed a six-hour project entitled Change Your Job/Change Your Life for PBS, which included a cross-platform CD-ROM, Web site, home video and course manual. He authored a weekly column, Wiland's World, for www.freeagent.com.

Wiland is a director member of the Directors Guild of America, and he holds an M.F.A. in film from Columbia University. With his partner Dale Bell, he was Executive Producer/Director/Writer of the award-winning And Thou Shalt Honor… a 2-hour special PBS broadcast on family caregiving, hosted by Joe Mantegna. ATSH was named by PBS to be a "special program of note," and was additionally honored as October's Program Pick of the Month (2002). The telecast was supported by a nationwide community grassroots outreach and publicity campaign, an interactive website, and companion book, published by Rodale Inc., with Foreword by Rosalynn Carter.