Alvin H. Perlmutter, Director of The Independent Production Fund, has produced television programming for over thirty years.
Prior to forming his own company, Mr. Perlmutter served as NBC News Vice President and earlier as Director of Public Affairs Programming and Program Manager of WNBC-TV, New York. He is the recipient of six Emmys and five Ace awards for excellence in programming on cable television. Perlmutter has produced award-winning documentaries including: NET Journal, The Creative Spirit, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Native Land, The World of Abnormal Psychology, and The Emperor’s Eye: Art and Power in Industrial China.
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Broadcast, Cable, Sports and News, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, in turn a subsidiary of Comcast. The group's various operations report to the president of NBC News, Noah Oppenheim.
Perlmutter is the president of Alvin H. Perlmutter Inc., which produces "Adam Smith's Money World" for WNET. He was the creator and executive producer of The Great American Dream Machine and other programs for public television.
Biography
Mr. Perlmutter graduated from Syracuse University. He is a son of the late Jennie and Fred Perlmutter.
In 1994, he married Joan Konner, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Konner and Perlmutter co-produced the documentary Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth.
Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Established in 1754, Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is one of nine colonial colleges founded prior to the Declaration of Independence, seven of which belong to the Ivy League. It has been ranked by numerous major education publications as among the top ten universities in the world.
He is President of Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc., a television production company and Chair and CEO of Sunrise Media LLC, a television and educational news film archive. He has originated more than a hundred PBS documentaries.
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