November, 2004
Content Team Begins to build core programming
The heart of any museum and cultural center is its content, and the International Freedom Center is extremely
fortunate to already have a strong and experienced team shaping and building its core. Center co-founder and creative director Peter Kunhardt leads the creative team that includes his colleagues
at Kunhardt Productions. The International Freedom Center has entered into an agreement with Kunhardt
Productions, one of the country’s leading documentary filmmakers, to develop the content and programming for
the Center.
The Kunhardt Productions team has turned its energies toward building the written and visual narrative for this
new world-class institution. Here’s a quick glimpse of some of the leading members of the Kunhardt/IFC team:
Peter Kunhardt, creative director, is the winner of three national Emmy Awards including JFK: In His Own Words
(1988). A 10-year veteran of ABC News, Peter founded Kunhardt Productions in 1987 with his brother, Philip
Kunhardt III, and his father, Philip Jr., the former managing editor of Life Magazine.
Philip Kunhardt III, editorial director, was the writer and co-producer with Peter Kunhardt of ABC’s Lincoln, and of The American
President and Freedom: A History of Us for PBS. Philip is an Episcopal priest and a trustee of the Cathedral
of St. John the Divine.
Dyllan McGee, Director of Content & Operations, joined Kunhardt Productions in 1993 and serves as
the supervising producer for all of the company’s programming, educational outreach and web development.
Dyllan is also a trustee of the Taft School.
Sabin Streeter’s work as a writer and producer has included the
Kunhardt Productions films In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01 and the forthcoming television documentary What
Went Wrong: 80 Years to 9/11. He is the co-editor of GIG, an oral history of the contemporary workplace
(Random House, 2000) and was senior producer at Word.com.
Nancy Steiner worked for NBC News for almost
all of the 1980s and 1990s, including stints as a producer for Today and the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.
While at Today, her work won a Peabody Award. Since joining Kunhardt Productions her work has included Freedom:
A History of Us and The Kennedy Tapes on Bravo.
Karen Sim began her documentary film career editing Maro
Chermayeff’s Juilliard, and also edited a number of films for Frontline, two of which received Emmy Awards.
Karen was the series editor for Freedom: A History of Us.
Jill Cowan, who oversees all archival and photo footage research for Kunhardt Productions projects, joined Kunhardt in 1998. Her previous work included
stints at ABC News, NBC News and The New York Times.
Dina Hossain, a recent addition to the Kunhardt team, has
spent more than eight years as a television producer for New York Times television, PBS’s “Frontline” and
“American Masters” and ABC News’s “Nightline.”
Kathryn Gravdal taught French and later Women’s Studies
full-time at Columbia University for 15 years, and was associate director of the Institute for Research
on Women and Gender for seven of those years; she remains a visiting scholar at the Institute. She is the
author of Ravishing Maidens and Vilain and Courtois.
Peter Kunhardt notes that, “Each member of the creative
team brings his or her own experience in the art of storytelling. We think their common background in
filmmaking and their diverse creative skills are perfectly suited for the complex job of shaping a narrative
and exhibit context for the International Freedom Center”.
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