Guggenheim Productions, Inc. ®

• GRACE GUGGENHEIM •

Grace Guggenheim has been a film and television producer, and executive producer, of historical documentaries with Guggenheim Productions, Inc.® for over twentyfive years.

Ms. Guggenheim has produced over twenty 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. They involved intensive archival research and licensing with private and public resources in the United States and abroad.

She co-produced The Man Nobody Knew, a feature length documentary about the late William Colby, seminal American Spymaster and former head of the CIA. This revealing portrait is told by his son Carl Colby, who directed and produced this film. This film launched on September 23, 2011 at Lincoln Plaza in New York City. It received a New York Times Critics' Pick and subsequently had a theatrical rollout in twenty-five cities throughout the United States and abroad.

She served as Producer of the documentary Berga: Soldiers of Another War. This co-production with WNET/Thirteen New York debuted in a national broadcast on PBS. The film was shortlisted for an Academy Award® nomination and then went onto win the IDA Pare Lorenz Award. It tells the unknown story of a group of 350 American soldiers captured during 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 Knopf.

Her credits include: Producer of Harry S. Truman: 1884 -1972, a film biography of President Truman; Producer of the Academy Award® - nominated A Place in the Land, for The Woodstock Foundation in Woodstock, Vermont; Executive Producer of 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 Senior Producer of both the theatrically released 1989 Academy Award®-winning film The Johnstown Floodand the 1992 expanded version which was televised on the "American Experience." Other credits include Clear Picturesa 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, Missouri. She created Grace Guggenheim Productions LLC, which is preserving and distributing the Charles Guggenheim DVD Collection Series. She has line produced four 2K-2.5k digital restoration projects. Two are on perminant exhibition. Monument to the Dream, the 1967 Academy Award® Nominee, that captures the struggle and heroism of the men who built the St. Louis Arch, an engineering triumph of America's Gateway Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and A Place in the Land, the 1999 Academy Award® Nominee, about three American conservationist connected by a common vision, to protect America's resources located in Woodstock, Vermont. Her current restoriation project,
From King to Congress,
about Andrew's Youngs successful 1972 Campaign, the first African American from the deep South to be elected tot he United States Congress since Post Reconstruction in Atlanta, Georgia.

She directed her third film, Sharon's Story: A Treatment Designed to Cure Cancer.
A true story about a cancer scientist who under great contraints designed a new method of treatment to save his sister's life from one of the gravest cancers known. This film captures the courage, tenacity, love, and the power of science of one family’s fight with metastatic pancreatic cancer and living with three generations with the BRCA2 mutation.

Ms. Guggenheim is an adjunct faculty member with the University of California DC Campus arts elective program. She 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.

A former board member of 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. She was also a Trustee with The Potomac School in McLean. Va. for six years.

Ms. Guggenheim is a current advisory trustee for the Junior Tennis Champions Center located in College Park, Maryland and the Advisory Committee for the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capitol, and a current Trustee for the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia.

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, DC

Her professional affiliations have included: Women in Film and Video, and the American Institute of Architects. Ms. Guggenheim was a recipient of the WIFV 2010 Women of Vision Award.