BARBARA MULTER-WELLIN’S work as an Emmy-winning nonfiction writer and producer whose work has been seen on HBO, Showtime, Lifetime, TLC, KCET, The Discovery Channel, UPN. Over four decades, she has written and produced hundreds of hours of television and digital content. Her latest film, “ORCHESTRATING CHANGE,” co-produced and directed with Margie Friedman, about an orchestra for people living wit
h mental illness will have its television premiered Fall 2020 through KTWU and American Public Television. The documentary was the sole 2021 winner of the Austen Riggs Erickson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media. Barbara has also produced and written two films for the acclaimed PBS documentary series, “Independent Lens.” “TAKING THE HEAT: The First Women Firefighters of New York City,” a documentary narrated by Susan Sarandon, is about the 20-year struggle to bring women into the New York Fire Department, an institution traditionally hostile to change rocked by the overwhelming trauma and loss of September 11th. The second film, “PAUL CONRAD: Drawing Fire,” narrated by Tom Brokaw, tracks the career of three-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist in the context of pop history of the eleven presidents Conrad lampooned during his storied career. Barbara is a former instructor and Chair of New York Film Academy’s Documentary Department and a former Chair of the Documentary/Reality Committee of the Producer’s Guild of America. She is also a certified grant writer and consultant with extensive experience researching and writing grants and proposals for, among others, ITVS, NEA, networks, and private and public funding sources. Barbara is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts’ Theater Department where she gained a solid foundation in narrative structure and storytelling. Barbara’s decades of writing and producing experience and her lifelong passion for documentaries and nonfiction media make her The Docudiva.
I'm Barbara Multer-Wellin, aka the Docudiva, sharing my decades of non-fiction media experience. Lifetime, Fit-TV, TBS and HGTV and more.
