Michael Schwarz


Michael Schwarz (Producer and Director) founded Kikim Media with his wife Kiki Kapany in 1996. His work has been honored with the most prestigious awards in broadcasting "” including three national Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award and the Grand Prize in the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for Coverage of the Disadvantaged.
In addition to In Defense of Food, Schwarz is also currently directing The Valley, a three-hour cultural, intellectual, and technological history of Silicon Valley; and The Ornament of the World, a two-hour history of medieval Spain.
Other recent projects include: The Botany of Desire, based on Michael Pollan's book about the relationship between plants and people; Capturing Grace (executive producer), the unlikely story of what happens when the world- renowned Mark Morris Dance Group and people with Parkinson's disease join forces to create a unique performance; Extreme by Design, a film about students building a better world, one product at a time; My Father, My Brother and Me (FRONTLINE), a chronicle of Parkinson's disease; and Hunting the Hidden Dimension (NOVA), the story of fractal geometry.
As a Fulbright Fellow in the 1980s, Schwarz conducted documentary production workshops in Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

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26° Festival

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05 June - 11 June 2023
TORINO

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