WILAND-BELL PRODUCTIONS

Team Wiland Bell Wiland-Bell Productions is a multiple award-winning media production company, specializing in the design and implementation of socially relevant projects in an entertaining and enlightening context.

Harry Wiland's and Dale Bell's individual productions have won one Academy Award ("Woodstock"), five Emmys, one Peabody, two Christophers, two Cine Golden Eagles, four Childrens' Acts, among other awards and nominations. Their collective films for PBS, networks, cable, and cinema represent an array of styles including journalism, documentary, dramatic feature film, performance, and industrial. ("National Geographic Specials," "Kennedy Center Tonight," "The Chemical People," "WonderWorks," and "Johnny Cash.")

In 2000, together with The Motion Picture & Television Fund care facility based in Woodland Hills, CA, Wiland and Bell produced a television special, Kevin Spacey and Friends, honoring the lives of several of the facility's residents from the entertainment community. With MPTF, they have also developed the entertainment special, 2003 Laughs, a celebration of the art of "sketch comedy."

Wiland and Bell's latest project, And Thou Shalt Honor…Caring for Our Parents, Spouses, and Friends is a 2-hour primetime TV series for PBS. A community grassroots outreach campaign, and a companion book published by Rodale Press are important extensions of the program. The web site can be found at www.andthoushalthonor.org. To replicate the CareGiving model and mission, the company is now creating a CareGiver Resource Center Video Library, as well as marketing sequels, a 20-city Town Hall Meeting series of PBS telecasts, and similar multi-media cause-related projects in the fields of the elderly, the environment, and education.