Ron Frank

Ron Frank is an award-winning producer whose credits span more than twenty-five years in film and television production, direction, writing and editing documentaries, live concerts, promos, music videos and other non-fiction programming.  His productions have been seen on PBS, ABC, CNN, MTV, A&E, TLC, Discovery and History, and throughout France, Germany, Israel, Japan and Australia. Screenings of his films have been held at SXSW, AFI,  MOMA, Israel Film Fest, Kennedy Center, United Nations, NY., Television Academy, L.A.  His production  work has been reviewed by Variety, Hollywood Reporter, MSNBC, NY Times, LA  Times, Washington Post .

Ron has recently completed producing and directing When Comedy Went to School about the comedians from the Catskill Mountains, hosted by Robert Klein with Jerry Lewis, Jackie Mason, Sid Caesar, Jerry Stiller and Larry King. He was a producer and director for The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success with Deepak Chopra and Olivia Newton-John for Fox Home Video. He has also directed Bad Boy Made Good, music composer George Antheil and his Ballet mecanique for PBS. Field Director for Hong Kong Rocks an MTV special from Hong Kong with the Rolling Stones, Santana and Prince.  He also produced, directed and edited Only in America, a behind-the-scenes story of Senator Joe Lieberman’s national campaign for VP in 2000. Ron has always been intrigued by subjects with a social content, but never more than when he produced, The Eternal Road: An Encounter with the Past,  a testament to the last German-Jewish generation born in the early part of the 20th century – screened on over 50 PBS stations and many film festivals. His production, The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Real Story, for TLC, narrated by Louis Gossett, Jr., related the true story about racism in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and was honored with the Silver Medal by the New York Festival and the Chicago Film Festival/lntercom, as well as winning a Telly Award. The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann, which he wrote, produced and edited, for A&E, narrated by Gregory Peck, was honored by the New York Festival, also winning a Telly and a NEFV award..

He produced and directed Gloria, hosted by James Earl Jones, a musical spectacle performed live in Jerusalem, with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and Millennium Choir. Israeli Intelligence and Shadows of the Six Day War were filmed for the History Channel's Secrets of War series. His Mystery of Mars, a story regarding the possibility of life on Mars and intelligent life in the universe, was narrated by Leonard Nimoy for TLC.

As an award-winning film editor, Frank's earlier credits include: Turning Point: Murder in Mississippi for ABC; Ivan the Terrible: The Demjanjuk Dossier for PBS; and the Cable Ace award-winning series The Revolutionary War for TLC.

A graduate of New York University's film school, Frank lived and worked in Jerusalem, working for CNN and ABC News, and producing film and television productions for the Israeli government and non-profit organizations.