Harry Wiland
Executive Producer

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.

Dale Bell
Executive Producer

A television producer and executive with many awards to his credit, Dale Bell’s wide-ranging career has seen him write, produce, direct and sell hours of documentary film. His recent works include The Secrets of War, Shangri-La: Ancient Mystery and California and the Dream Seekers for A&E, Pirate Tales for TBS, Battleship! for Discovery, A Driving Need for PBS and Chariots of the Gods?: The Mystery Continues for ABC. His productions in both film and television have earned him an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Peabody Award, two Christopher Awards and two Cine Golden Eagle Awards. Bell has also just written and edited a 30th anniversary book which tells the many personal stories behind the Academy Award-winning movie Woodstock, which he helped produce. And, during Bell’s four-year tenure as executive producer, the PBS movie series WonderWorks won the Children’s Act Award annually, as well as other domestic and international awards of excellence.

Bell has supervised production of National Geographic specials and served as vice president of worldwide production at Pittsburgh’s PBS affiliate WQED, working on documentaries, dramatic films, and performance specials that included music, dance, jazz and drama. His extensive fund-raising savvy brought such Emmy Award-winning series as Kennedy Center Tonight and Previn and the Pittsburgh to fruition and to date, he has raised $57 million for the production of quality cultural programs.

Bell is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America.

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is one of the major providers of programs for the PBS national primetime schedule. OPB produces a variety of freestanding documentary specials and series, as well as specials for Frontline, Nova and The American Experience. OPB has an established reputation for penetrating investigative reporting on a wide range of issues in society and the natural world, and specializes in such genres as critical events and contemporary history, business/technology, travel and exploration and science. In addition to a portfolio of commercial TV projects, OPB has also produced regularly for the distance learning and education-video industry.

OPB has produced major Web sites for PBS.org as well as enhanced TV prototypes, books, companion radio documentaries and extensive promotion and outreach campaigns for PBS primetime programs. OPB has also licensed its programs in 29 countries throughout the world.

Independent Television Services

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