OUR MISSION

Formed in 2001, Azimuth Media's mission is to produce and distribute television programs that investigate and explain global security issues to public audiences worldwide. Our programs examine pressing international issues aimed toward fostering public understanding. Working with leading journalists, we strive to make our topics relevant, comprehensible, and engaging. Our programs present points-of-view that are decidedly different, refreshingly insightful, and often surprising.

OUR STAFF

BRUCE BLAIR, Executive Producer, founded Azimuth Media in 2001. He received his B.S. in communications from the University of Illinois in 1970; served as a Minuteman ICBM launch control office in the U.S. Air Force; earned an M.S. in management sciences at Yale University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in operations research at Yale in 1984. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship Prize in 1999 for his work and leadership on de-alerting nuclear forces. Dr. Blair is the author of numerous books and articles on security issues in such publications as Scientific American, National Interest, New York Times and The Washington Post. His production credits include "Missile Wars," FRONTLINE, 2002; "Deadlock: Russia's Forgotten War," CNN Presents, 2002; and the global affairs series Foreign Exchange.

GLENN BAKER is a filmmaker with more than 40 documentaries broadcast on PBS exploring global security issues. He produced and directed Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age for the PBS series “America at a Crossroads. His productions on underrepresented groups, the military/media relationship, Cuba, conflict prevention, nuclear weapons, and firearms violence have been recognized with more than a dozen national awards, including a CINE Golden Eagle to “Stand Up” for excellence in broadcast documentary. He is Senior Producer for Foreign Exchange, Azimuth’s weekly world affairs program on PBS. He became Co-Director of Azimuth Media in 2001, and he is the founder and president of Potomac Media Works.

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STEPHEN SAPIENZA is a producer and writer of television programs for national and international distribution. In 2008, he traveled to Bangladesh to shoot and conduct preliminary research in advance of the Sundance Institute funded Easy Like Water film project. Also in 2008, he was a producer for the groundbreaking web-reporting project called LiveHopeLove.com about HIV in Jamaica. In 2007, he produced four short films for a web-based reporting series on HIV in the Caribbean called Heroes of HIV. In 2002, he produced "Deadlock: Russia's Forgotten War" for CNN Presents, a documentary that won a CINE Golden Eagle Award. Since 1992 he has produced 45 news documentaries broadcast on PBS covering a wide range of global security topics, including child combatants in Sierra Leone, the Cuban military, and landmine survivors in Cambodia. He currently writes and produces for Azimuth Media's global affairs TV series Foreign Exchange. He became Co-Director of Azimuth Media in 2001.

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MARK SUGG is the Series Producer for Foreign Exchange, responsible for all operational and day-to-day editorial matters related to the television series. Mark has been a non-profit television producer in Washington, DC for twenty years. He was the Director of Television Operations for America's Defense Monitor, a weekly documentary series devoted to international security issues. Previously he was the Director of Ideal Communications, Inc. an independent non-profit production company serving the educational video market and numerous broadcast outlets. Mark has a B.A. in Philosophy from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. Mark is the series producer for Azimuth Media? Foreign Exchange television program.

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OUR ADVISORY PANEL

Members of the advisory panel were selected based on their reputations for distinguished and creative work in journalism and documentary production. Their diverse experience, independent perspectives, and journalistic integrity are an invaluable asset to Azimuth Media documentary projects.

• MARVIN KALB, journalist and scholar; former chief diplomatic Correspondent for CBS and NBC News and moderator of "Meet the Press".

• GORDON QUINN, independent documentary filmmaker; founder of Kartemquin Films and executive producer of Hoop Dreams, Vietnam: Long Time Coming, and many other films.

• JERRY RAFSHOON, feature film executive producer and former White House communications director.

• STEPHEN HESS, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an expert on the relationship of media and politics.