I have worked in all aspects of documentary production: program development, research, writing, directing, shooting and editing. I have wide international experience and have directed several correspondents and program hosts. 

Producer/videographer/editor, Mindfire Productions: A series of programs combining geography with personal histories. In development for Danish television. (Current)

Producer/videographer/editor, Mindfire Productions: “The Risk Factor”, “For Goodness Sake”, “A Class of his Own”.  Older Americans look back on the dreams of their youth. Three one-hour program in the series: THE FAR SIDE OF DREAMS. (Vimeo on Demand, 2020-2024). “The Risk Factor” in a longer version also available Amazon video. bit.ly/4h80Ypg

Producer/videographer/editor, Mountain Lake PBS: MUSIC MAGIC, an hour-long program about violinist Daisy Jopling and rural children preparing to play in one of her concerts. (2017) 

Producer/videographer/editor, Mindfire Productions. Cannabis to Save My Life. A film about a lung cancer patient who pursues scientific discoveries about marihuana as an anti-cancer drug. Several PBS stations and cinemas, 2015. Amazon Video bit.ly/3Cq64OG

Assistant director/videographer, TV2, Denmark. BOSSEN OG BØLLERNE. A half-hour program about four second-generation Muslim boys in Copenhagen in trouble with the law. (2008 – 2009) 

Producer/writer/videographer, NBC Peacock Productions. Two one-hour documentaries on transgender issues for MSNBC. One one-hour program on meth addiction for A&E. (2007 - 2008)

Producer/writer, ABC News Productions. Documentaries for A&E, TLC, Court-TV, Discovery, Discovery Health, and Discovery Times. (2000 - 2007) Several awards, most recently a CINE Golden Eagle for THE RAPTURE, a show on the fundamentalist Christian end-time concept. 

Producer/writer, Atlas Media. A one-hour special: KATRINA, THE LOST EPISODE for the Weather Channel. (2006) Their highest rated documentary.

Producer/program developer, Mindfire Productions.  Awarded a research grant by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to develop a documentary on how Arab and American TV cover the same Middle East event for “America at a Crossroads.” (2005)

Producer/director/videographer/editor.  CONVENT, a one-hour program about two young girls preparing to take vows. Parts of it shown on Religion&Ethics News Weekly.  (2001)  Also on Amazon video amzn.to/2ve8zgL

Producer/video journalist, New York Times Television. A one-hour verite-style program in the TRAUMA series for TLC. (March 1999 – August 1999)

Producer/writer, ABC News. THE CENTURY with Peter Jennings. Four one-hour programs in a 15-hour series on the history of America in the 20th century. Also 16 spots and a sales reel for the series. (1997 – 1999)

Producer, director, videographer, co-editor, PBS. CAYUTAVILLE, a one-hour program about the struggles of two families in a village in Upstate New York. Shown nationally in September 1998.

Producer, TV2 Denmark. THE CURSE OF AMERICA, an hour-long program on drug-related violence; and IN AND OUT OF WASHINGTON, a look at the presidential transition in 1992. (1992 - 1994)

Coproducer, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. TESTIMONY, an hour-long film, part of the museum’s permanent exhibit. (1992) 

Producer/writer, PBS.BREAKING THE MOLD, four half-hour programs on the Cold War. (1990 - 1991)

Associate producer, Channel 4, Britain and PBS. AMERICA'S CENTURY, a six-hour series on US foreign policy. (1989 - 1990) 

Series developer, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions. Series on the Nordic countries. Produced a 15-minute pilot hosted by Liv Ullman. (1988)

Associate Producer/Senior Researcher, BBC and WETA. THE AFRICANS: A TRIPLE HERITAGE, a nine-hour series filmed on location all over Africa. (1983 - 1986) Eight national and international awards.

Magazine Pieces and News stories

Producer/writer, PBS. RELIGION&ETHICS NEWS WEEKLY, occasional pieces.

Producer, GLOBAL VISION, PBS. A 15-minute piece on children’s rights in Denmark. (1996)

Producer, PBS. MEDIA MATTERS, 15-minute segment on the press and religion, an ATV Associates production. (1995)

Producer, TV 2 DENMARK, Washington News Bureau. News stories, news features, magazine pieces, and documentaries. (1992 - 1994)

Writing

Non-fiction: Diana Frank & Marta Vogel: THE BABY MAKERS. 

(On hi-tech conception and birth). Carroll & Graf, New York, 1988. 

Diana Frank: “Producing the Africans: A Triple Heritage” in THE GLOBAL AFRICAN. Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, 1998.

Diana Frank and Jeffrey Frank: “The Melancholy Dane” THE NEW YORKER, January 8, 2001. 

Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank: “THE STORIES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.” Translations and introductory essay, Houghton Mifflin, November 2003.

Diana Frank and Jeffrey Frank: “Hans Christian Andersen’s American Dream.” SCANDINAVIAN REVIEW, Spring 2004.

Diana Crone: ET UAAR. (A novel in Danish). Thanning & Appel, Copenhagen, 1979.

Miscellaneous

Adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, New York 2009

Diana Frank and Jeffrey Frank: “On translating Hans Christian Andersen.” Paper given at a Princeton University Conference, November 2005. Published in MARVELS&TALES, Vol. 20, 2. 2006

Led three-day seminar on “Enchantment in Tales and Tunes” at the Aspen “ARTS AND IDEAS” week. July 2008. 

Education

PH.D. in General Linguistics, Cornell University.  Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship. 

M.S., B.S. in Theoretical Linguistics, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Georgetown University.

Languages 

Danish, English, French and half-forgotten German.

International Working Experience

Algeria, China, Congo, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Gambia, Israel, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, the Occupied Territories, Qatar, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, USA, Vietnam.

Awards

American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon, Cine Golden Eagle (2), Christopher Award, Columbus International Film and Video Festival Bronze (2), Ohio State award,  Prism Award.