Meet the Producer
Susan Hannah Hadary is a recipient of an Oscar® and national Peabody Award for the short documentary King Gimp; and also has received a CableAce Award, national Emmy nominations, and six regional Emmy Awards. Her documentaries have been acquired and commissioned by HBO, The Learning Channel, Discovery and Discovery Health.
Susan Hannah Hadary
Winner of an Oscar®, A Peabody, and Emmy Awards
Susan Hannah Hadary, the director of MedSchool Maryland Productions and Video Press, is the winner of an Oscar®, a Peabody Award and numerous Emmy awards. She has been the producer for three HBO documentaries and the supervising producer and writer for over 30 programs commissioned by Discovery including the Med School series, Critical Incident series and Critical Hour series.
Recently, under funding from The Abell Foundation, she developed a video web based violence prevention campaign which can be seen at www.bettermyworld.org. Under a special commission from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation she created video profiles of the Lasker laureates, viewable at www.laskerfoundation.org. Other productions this year included a special campaign for Baltimore City foster children and a training series for the Veterans Administration.
"The strength of the human spirit, offering hope, not despair."
--City Paper
Her past collaborations with Bill Whiteford included three documentaries for HBO; Bong and Donnell, Love, Josh and the widely acclaimed Academy Award winning production King Gimp. These documentaries bringing to the screen the portrait of many "ordinary people" who have had exceptional life circumstances. Often following the "documentary stars" for many years, they capture the journey of life.
"Brush Strokes of Genius…"
--review of King Gimp, New York Daily News
"Somehow the filmmakers made you care about them almost as much as a parent would." --The Baltimore Sun
Documentaries by Susan Hadary have been reviewed by film critics for numerous publications including the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post, Variety, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and The Hollywood Reporter. She has been interviewed on Good Morning America, Weekend Today and guest starred on numerous radio shows.
National Production Credits and Awards
KING GIMP (HBO)
"Exhilarating but far from embarrassing…"-- New York Times
Oscar Award® Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, National EMMY Nomination, Peabody Award, and The New York Festivals Media Disability Awareness Award.
BONG AND DONNELL (HBO)
"It’s a touching, often amusing and beguiling sketch about youthfulness"
-- Variety, Los Angeles
National EMMY Nomination from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Cable Ace Award, and EMMY Award (Regional).
LOVE, JOSH (HBO Family) - Freddie Award and Best of Baltimore.
CRITICAL INCIDENT (TLC) - 6 program series commissioned by The Learning Channel.
MED SCHOOL (Discovery) - 6 program series commissioned by Discovery Health.
CRITICAL HOUR (Discovery) - 16 program series commissioned by Discovery Health.
SARAH'S GRADUATION (Maryland Public Television)
“It’s an extraordinary film about how special the ordinary can be. It will remind you how good TV can be when the people making it care." -- The Baltimore Sun
EMMY Nomination (regional).
GRACE (Offered Nationally on Public Television Stations)
"There are moments in this film that distill emotion so well they should be freeze-framed and hung on the wall"-- The Sun
First Place, Broadcast Journalism Sigma-Tau Foundation; First Place National Media Award, The Retirement Research Foundation; Gold Apple, National Educational Film and Video Festival; First Place, American Film and Video Festival; EMMY Award (Regional); Chris Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival; and Blue Ribbon, American Film and Video Festival.
RACHAEL IN MIDDLE SCHOOL (Maryland Public Television) - EMMY Nomination (Regional).
ONE EAST (Public Television Stations)
"One East has moments that are as carefully crafted and eloquent as anything you’ll see in any TV documentary this year." -- The Sun
EMMY Nomination (regional), and Chris Statuette from the 39th Annual Columbus International Film Festival.
MARGE AND WALTER (PBS)
"Marge and Walter...is the kind of documentary that dares to follow its heart."-- The Sun
Silver Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and First Place from Images of Aging.
MISS NORA'S STORE (Public Television Stations)
"Miss Nora’s Store delivers a message about what the elderly can do and how they can live when then are not fenced off, segregated, or even warehoused" -- The Sun
EMMY Nomination (Regional), Gold Apple from the National Educational Film and Video Festival.
SHAKISSHA AND FRIENDS (Public Television Stations)
"Shakissha mesmerizes"-- The Sun.
Silver Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Silver Apple from the National Educational Film and Video Festival.
Additional National Releases
BEGINNING WITH BONG; RACHAEL, BEING FIVE; LIVING WITH GRACE; MEDICATED GENERATION; THE WILSON CRISIS; and DOMINICK AND MARGARET.
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