Laura Seltzer, Producer/Director/Camera

Laura Seltzer has been producing, directing and managing the production of award-winning documentaries and educational programs since 1995. She founded Seltzer Film & Video for the purpose of producing social action videos that inspire change.

From non-profits with cost effective budgets to high end corporate films and videos, Seltzer works closely with clients to create a professional, high-quality product. Her videos and television specials which include the The Last Boat Out, Conversations, and Changing the Face of Medicine demonstrate not only her producing skills, but her ability to convey a feeling. She becomes invested in your cause, bringing your story to life through video.

Seltzer’s multi-award winning documentary The Last Boat Out narrated by Sam Waterston, premiered on PBS in April 2010. The film is about a family of Watermen tirelessly trying to continue working the waters of Chesapeake
Bay in the face of diminishing harvests in a polluted bay. This film is part of the documentary series in development

called Voices of the Chesapeake. As the Field Producer on the independent documentary We’re Not Broke, Seltzer shot the Philadelphia and Longbranch, NJ stories.

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, Lorraine Bracco, Terry Bradshaw 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. She has produced numerous TV segments for the PBS series Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, the RLTV Channel and the NBC series Hispanics Today.

Laura Seltzer is a freelance Documentary Filmmaker and Location Scout in Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York. She began her career in New York after studying filmmaking at New York University.