Laura Seltzer has been producing, directing and managing the production of award-winning documentaries and educational programs since 1993. She founded Seltzer Film & Video in 1995 for the purpose of producing social action videos that inspire change.
She is currently Producing the PBS documentary The Last Boat Out that is is slated to air on PBS in the Spring. This documentary is about a family of Watermen from the Virginia Peninsula who are tirelessly trying to continue harvesting the waters of Chesapeake Bay in the face of diminishing harvests and relentless development.
Seltzer is the Senior Producer on the 26 episode Television Series Made in Spain that is currently airing nationally on PBS. Her company, Seltzer Film & Video produces the annual Conversations series about coping with mental illness for the American Psychiatric Foundation. Each hour features a profile and in-depth conversation with well known personalities such as Brooke Shields, Mariel Hemingway and Patty Duke.
She Co-Produced the multi-award winning interactive DVD Changing the Face of Medicine with MacNeil Lehrer Productions and the accompanying series Local Legends for the National Institutes of Health. Both projects profile courageous female physicians that have made an invaluable impact on the lives of people in their communities and around the world.
She was a Producer for the two-hour documentary Ronald Reagan: The Private World of a Public Man that aired on the History Channel and an Associate Producer on the PBS documentary series Modern First Ladies for MacNeil Lehrer Productions that premiered with The Biography of Lady Bird Johnson. She has produced numerous TV segment for the PBS series Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, the RLTV Channel and the NBC series Hispanics Today.
Laura Seltzer is a freelance Documentary Filmmaker, Photographer and Location Scout based in Washington, DC. She began her career in New York after studying filmmaking at New York University.
