Grace Guggenheim has been a producer and executive producer with Guggenheim Productions, Inc.® for over twenty-five years.
She produced the documentary Berga: Soldiers of Another War. This co-production with WNET/Thirteen New York which debuted in a national broadcast on PBS. It tells the unknown story of a group of American soldiers captured in the Battle of the Bulge who, because they were Jewish or classified as "undesirables," were sent to a slave labor camp in eastern Germany. In May of 2005, a companion book, Soldiers and Slaves written by the International Herald Tribune and New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, was published by Knopft.
Ms. Guggenheim has produced over fifteen documentaries for both television and theatrical release. Many of these films have been finished in 35mm for permanent exhibition at museums and presidential libraries around the country. Most of them, traditional and historical in nature, involved intensive archival research with private and public resources in the United States and abroad.
Her credits include: Harry S. Truman: 1884 -1972, a film biography of President Truman; the Academy Award® -nominated A Place in the Land, for The Woodstock Foundation in Woodstock, Vermont; the Academy Award®-nominated D-Day Remembered, for the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana and the "American Experience" series on PBS; and the theatrically released 1989 Academy Award®-winning film, The Johnstown Flood, followed by the expanded version which was televised on the "American Experience." Other credits include Clear Pictures, a biography of the novelist Reynolds Price; LBJ: A Remembrance, the story of Lyndon Johnson; and A Life: The Story of Lady Bird Johnson, a biography of the former First Lady.
Ms. Guggenheim is President of Guggenheim Productions, Inc.®, overseeing and managing the preservation of her late father's legacy, located at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences / Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles and The Missouri History Museum in St. Louis, MO. She created Grace Guggenheim Productions LLC, which is creating, preserving, and distributing the Charles Guggenheim DVD Collection Series. Her current 2K digital restoration project is Monument to the Dream,1967 Academy Award® Nominee, the story of the building of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, America's Gateway Arch - an engineering triumph. In development is From King to Congress, about Andrew Young's 1972 congressional race. She co-produced a documentary feature about the late William Colby, Spymaster and former head of the CIA, with his son Carl Colby. This film launched on September 23rd at Lincoln Plaza in New York City in 2011. It recieved a New York Times Critics Pick and subsequently and has had a theatrical rollout in twenty-five cities throughout the United States and abroad.
Ms. Guggenheim has been a guest lecturer at Stanford Law School, Scripps and Goucher College, and has participated in U.S. Department of State feature film cultural programs in South Africa and Egypt. She advises the programming committee for The Charles Guggenheim Center for Documentary Film located at the National Archives in Washington, DC, now in its seventh year of screening all Academy Award® -nominated documentaries, and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Environmental Film Festival in The Nation’s Capital.
A former board member for 10 years for Woodley House, a Washington, D.C. residential facility that provides housing and counseling to citizens who struggle with mental illness and drug addiction. Ms. Guggenheim received the 2007 Donald Brown Rose Award.
Prior to her work at Guggenheim Productions, Inc.®, Ms. Guggenheim worked as a graphic designer and an architectural photographer at the Boston firm Payette Associates.
She graduated from Carleton College and currently lives in Washington, D.C.
Her professional affiliations include: Women in Film and Video and the American Institute of Architects. Ms. Guggenheim is a recipient of the 2010 Women of Vision Award.
