CAMBRIDGE DOCUMENTARY FILMS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Co - Director
• Executive
• Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts

Margaret Lazarus is the Executive Co-Director of Cambridge Documentary Films. She is an independent documentary film producer and director. Her documentary film Defending Our Lives, won the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary Film. Throughout her career she has combined her political activism with documentary filmmaking. She began by producing a weekly public affairs program for television in Boston. She was a Senior Fellow at the Tisch School at Tufts University. Margaret Lazarus is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has lectured at universities and conferences throughout the United States. She has written editorials on film, media and violence in society syndicated through the Scripps-Howard and Knight-Ridder services to over thirty major newspapers. She is the co-author of the chapters on violence against women for Our Bodies-Ourselves, (all editions) and many articles in journals and magazines including "Producing Media" in Feminist Media Studies in Feminist Media Studies and "The Documentary," for the Neiman Report.

Job Titles:

• Co - Director
• Co - Founder
• Social Worker

Renner Wunderlich is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of Cambridge Documentary Films. He has produced and directed many films about social justice and women's issues, including films on rape, body image, and media culture. In addition to the Academy Award, his films have won numerous awards and prizes, and have been screened at many of the major film festivals around the world and in the United Nations General Assembly, the White House, the Office of the Vice President, the US Senate and the House of Representatives. He worked for twenty years as a freelance editor, sound mixer, and cameraman for major networks, public television and educational institutions. Renner Wunderlich is an independent licensed social worker with a specialty in the mental health needs of creative clients in the arts and of veterans. He has worked with homeless veterans, returning veterans from the Iran and Afghanistan wars, and wounded veterans including those with post traumatic stress and substance abuse. He worked at the Veterans Administration and US Army Wounded Warrior Program, and was a member of the Massachusetts Governors Council on Veterans Affairs. He is also a private pilot who built and flew his own aircraft.