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 Seth Kramer l Daniel A. Miller l Jeremy S. Newberger Jeremy S. Newberger co-directed and co-shot The Linguists, a 65-minute documentary about scientists racing to document languages on the verge of extinction. The Linguists world premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to fantastic buzz, blogs, and reviews: "The talk of the town at Sundance" - Reuters; "A fascinating journey" - Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times; "Funny, enlightening and ultimately uplifting" - Kansas City Star. The first film funded by the National Science Foundation ever at Sundance, The Linguists is currently screening at film festivals and other venues around the world, from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the International Science Film Festival in Athens to UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Jeremy is Co-creator, Executive Producer, and Writer of The Fantastic Two, a serial web comedy starring William "The Refrigerator" Perry. Sponsored by McDonalds and Honda, The Fantastic Two airs across Broadband Enterprises' network of more than 400 websites. Jeremy innovated some of the Web's first episodic content, transforming the "webisode"—the hybrid of episodic television and video Web stream—into an indispensable business tool. Formerly Executive Producer for The FeedRoom, Jeremy created and managed a multimillion-dollar production division, creating hours of webisode programming for Fortune 500 companies like Cisco Systems, Ford Motor Company, Sun Microsystems, Bausch & Lomb, and others. From the most venerated CXO to the most focused engineer, Jeremy's background in traditional media enables him to make characters in his videos accessible to wider audiences. Jeremy produced MSNBC's Internet technology correspondent Lisa Napoli, now a reporter for NPR's Marketplace.org. Lisa's reports were featured on The News with Brian Williams and other NBC programs. Jeremy saw his fifteen minutes of cult celebrity as a producer and sometime on-air contributor to the Imus in the Morning television program on MSNBC. Jeremy produced segments with comedians Rob Bartlett, Kinky Friedman and Bernard McGuirk; reported live from events like Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic; and designed the show's radio/television/Internet convergence model, which many news programs now follow. Jeremy was profiled in Jim Reed's fan book Everything Imus. Jeremy became Chief Executive Officer of Ironbound Films in 2004. He lives in Yorktown Heights, New York, with his wife Michele, their son Samson and daughter Annabelle.
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