About: Broadcast Partners, Producers, Community Outreach PBS Stations

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AMERICAN MASTERS: Becoming Helen Keller Executive Producers: Susan Lacy and Michael Kantor; Series Producer: Julie Sacks; Producer: Mary Murphy; Co-Producer: Bridget Deely.

American Masters is an award-winning PBS biography series that celebrates our nation's arts and culture. The series is a production of THIRTEEN PRODUCTIONS LLC for WNET and also seen on the WORLD channel. To further explore the lives of masters past and present, the American Masters series website offers streaming video of select films, outtakes, filmmaker interviews, educational resources, and more.  

Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc: Consulting Producer: Laurie Block, Associate Producers: Helen Dobrowski, Nate Christy, K.C. Forcier. Block initiated the Becoming Helen Keller project. She is also the founder and director of The Disability History Museum. 

Straight Ahead Pictures (SAP) www.disabilitymuseum.org is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 that creates innovative media projects and educational forums using history to foster community dialogue about contemporary social issues. Nearly all of SAP’s original work relates to the cultural history of the body, especially the disability experience.  

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ITVS: Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer, Senior Director of Production, Dave Eisenberg. 

ITVS is a San Francisco bases non profit that has, for over 25 years, funded and partnered with diverse documentary filmmakers to produce and distribute untold stories. ITVS is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 

We extend a Special Thanks to these organizations for their support in the early stages of the project: WETA-TV, Northern Lights Production, and Blueberry Hill Productions. 

American Masters is available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS Video App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO. PBS station members will also be able to find Becoming Helen Keller via PBS Passport. 

Community Outreach PBS Stations  

Check your local PBS Station for special events!  

To expand the film’s impact, The WNET Group’s Community Engagement department worked with the stations listed below to produce new accessible content for broadcast and digital platforms. Each station worked with local advisors and subject matter experts to create this companion content. 

 

  • Alabama Public Television 

  • Iowa PBS 

  • WCNY (Syracuse, New York)

  • WFYI (Indianapolis, Indiana) 

  • WGCU Public Media (Southwest Florida) 

  • WQED (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 

  • WQLN Public Media (Lake Eerie region, Pennsylvania) 

  • WXXI (Greater Rochester area, New York)