Laura Seltzer-Duny: Documentary Filmmaker
LAURA SELTZER-DUNY has produced and directed award-winning documentaries and educational programs for over 15 years. She founded Seltzer Film & Video, LLC because of her passion for producing videos that inspire change for causes she believes in. Laura’s experience growing up on the Chesapeake Bay sparked her desire to produce her first independent film, The Last Boat Out, about watermen and water quality. Her film premiered in 2010 and still airs on PBS stations throughout the country.
Her current film, Nobody Wants Us, about refugees during WWII, is a little known but significant event in US history that took place in her hometown of Hampton Roads, VA. The 1-hour film version is slated to air on PBS in 2020. A 37-minute film version has been used in classes and community groups because it allows time for post-screening discussions.
Seltzer-Duny started her documentary film career working on the Cinemax film Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness while attending NYU Film School. It was then that she realized that telling powerful stories through documentaries was what she wanted to do. Over the next 10 years, she worked on documentaries featuring Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, Ronald Reagan, John Steinbeck, Brooke Shields and Terry Bradshaw, to name a few. Her work has aired on PBS, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC and Discovery Channels. She has produced educational series for the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, Classroom Close-Up and the Department of Education.
Seltzer-Duny is in the Washington, DC area.
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The videos below are organized by topic and run between 30 seconds and 3 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 0:54 min.
VALUES FIRST-RATE EDUCATION: 0:43 min.
DEVELOP A VOICE: 1:47 min.
SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES: 0:57 min.
EMPATHY: 1:30 min.
PERSEVERANCE FURTHERS: 3:03 min.
CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND: 2:06 min.
DEVELOP A VOICE: 0:58 min.
COLLABORATION: 2:04 sec.
OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED: 1:23 min.
PERSEVERANCE FURTHERS: 1:39 sec.
COLLABORATION: 2:57 sec.
UNDERSTANDS THE AUDIENCE’S PERSPECTIVE: 1:46 min.