Camille Servan-Schreiber

About Camille Servan-Schreiber

Camille Servan-Schreiber is an independent director and producer of documentary films. Her latest film is Land of Gold, a documentary about the making of an Opera about the violence of the Gold Rush. The film premiered at Telluride. Recently she also produced a couple hours in a doc series titled 37 Words, for the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the seminal Civil Rights law. Previously she produced First Angry Man, a documentary about the birth of Tax Revolt following the passage of Proposition 13 in California in 1978. She also produced Eames: The Architect and the Painter, which was released in theaters around the country and received a George Foster Peabody Award amid critical acclaim. Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, which she co-produced, about the famous science fiction writer was also very well received and broadcast on PBS.She has worked in documentary film since 1998 and has received numerous awards including a Golden Spire Award from the San Francisco Film Festival. Her short documentary A Southern Atheist premiered in September 2015 on the New York Times Op-Docs channel. Previously she produced a documentary about the History of Jews in the Making of San Francisco titled American Jerusalem. She has directed and produced The Secrets of J. Edgar Hoover for National Geographic. She co-produced The Nobel: Visions of a Century for KQED. She has also produced and filmed three segments of The New Heroes, a PBS series on social entrepreneurs and three segments of Frontline World for PBS. She received a broadband Emmy nomination for France: Soundtrack to a Riot. She has been a field producer on The Rape of Europa for PBS and on Alice Waters and her Delicious Revolution for American Masters. She has worked on films for Frontline including Emmy-nominated and Peabody recipient Drug Wars and Secrets of the SAT, which received the National Education Writers Association First Prize for Broadcast Journalism. After completing her studies in France she came to the US to study at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and is the co-founder of Bread and Butter Films.

Experience

1. Producer

   The Representation Project

   Aug 2023 — Present · CA, US

Education

• Université Paris Nanterre

  Master's degree, History

  1996

• University of California, Berkeley

  Masters, Journalism

  1996 — 1998

Skills

• Post Production
• Photography
• Editing
• Production
• New Media
• Television
• Producing
• Journalism
• Film
• Video Production
• Video
• Documentary
• Field Production
• Documentaries
• Storytelling
• Video Editing
• Film Production
• Television Production
• Broadcast
• Avid
• Camera
• Short Films
• Final Cut Pro
• Broadcast Journalism