About Us
“When I started Catalyst Media 40 years ago, my goal as a young filmmaker was to produce and direct feature documentaries that could make an impact and, in some way, change the world. I believe non-fiction storytelling has the power to do that, and I aspire to nothing less – whether as an independent filmmaker or during my 20-years as an Emmy-winning network TV producer for CBS News & ABC News.”
The Team
Glenn Silber
Principal / Founding Partner
Glenn Silber has a 40-year track record of producing more than 100 original non-fiction stories – both as an award-winning independent filmmaker specializing in feature documentaries and as a network TV newsmagazine producer for CBS News & ABC News.
Claudia Vianello
Principal
Filmmaker/Producer/Consultant
Claudia Vianello has more than 40 years of producing, consulting and creative development encompassing documentaries, dramatic features, corporate media, and large-scale meeting and special events for which she has received four “Telly” awards and four awards from the International Television and Video Association. She has partnered with clients in marketing, public affairs, communications and organizational development to design and implement multi-media campaigns to support the mission and strategic objectives of clients.
Phil A Raymond
Video Editor
Video editor for 15 years, specializing in storytelling and documentary films such as HBO’s Gideon’s Army, Addiction and Dirty Pictures as well as television work with Scripps Networks Interactive. He has worked with Eugene Jarecki, David Holbrook and editing with Tracy Grager on the award-winning film Boys Don’t Cry. Phil has been Catalyst Media’s primary video editor since 2007. He was editor on at least a dozen message videos and trailers, as well as Catalyst Media’s feature documentary Labor Day about the 2008 Presidential campaign and Catalyst’s short River’s Journey.
Curt Doty
Creative Consultant
Curt Doty is a former NBC Universal creative executive and award-winning marketer. His cross-media discipline has led to a branding practice leveraging his 25 years of experience. His sweet spot of innovation has been uniting the worlds of design, content and technology while working with all the major movie studios and dozens of TV networks. As a digital marketer, he redesigned websites for the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Santa Fe Film Institute, the National Captioning Institute, “The War at Home’s” 4K re-release; and created the digital community for the Santa Fe Art Experience.
THE WAR AT HOME
“Meticulously constructed …One of the great works of American documentary moviemaking.”
Kent Jones | Director, New York Film Festival, 2018
“El Salvador: Another Vietnam…should be widely distributed and seen by every American who wants to think about the world this country wants to rule and overrule. Technically achieved at the highest level by Glenn Silber and Tete Vasconcellos who are probably as lucky to be alive as the audience is to view their work.”
James McCourt | Film Comment on El Salvador: Another Vietnam
Catalyst Media Honors & Awards
Twice Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Glenn Silber has received dozens of awards and citations for his work as both an independent filmmaker and network TV broadcast journalist. (partial list below)
Academy Award Nomination – Best Feature Documentary for The War at Home
Academy Award Nomination – Best Feature Documentary for El Salvador: Another Vietnam
Columbia-DuPont Award - Silver Baton for An American Ism: Joe McCarthy (PBS)
George Polk Award - National TV Reporting for The Great American Bailout (Frontline)
Investigative Reporters & Editors Award – IRE Award - for The Great American Bailout
National Emmy Award - for Homeless in America: Suffer the Children (CBS) West 57th
National Emmy Award - for From the Ashes, (PBS)
Nomination for Emmy Award - for 20/20 reports on the Air Force Academy Rape & Sex Assault Scandal (ABC)
Nomination for Emmy Award - for Frontline, A Death in St. Augustine (PBS)
Writers Guild Award - for The Matthew Shepard Story: Secrets of a Murder. (ABC) 20/20
The Mongerson Prize (from the Northwestern Medill School of Journalism) - for The Matthew Shepard Story: Secrets of a Murder. (ABC) 20/20
Ohio State Media Award - for L.A. Gangs (CBS) West 57th
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship - for Filmmaking (1986-87)
Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (Documentary Branch)
Graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BS in Communication
Directing Fellow at American Film Institute’s Center for Advanced Film Studies
Founding Board Member of the Independent Feature Project (IFP)
Co-founder of First Run Features film distribution company
Former Board Member of the International Documentary Association (IDA)
