History

Through their Washington, DC production company (Screenscope), Marilyn and Hal Weiner have produced, written and directed over 225 documentaries and four public television series (Journey To Planet Earth, Women At Work, Faces Of Man and The World Of Cooking).  They have also produced three feature films (Family Business, The Imagemaker, and K2).

The Weiners have won over 130 top international awards, including 39 CINE Golden Eagles. They have also won Emmy Awards for Earth Summit Pledge, commissioned by the United Nations to open the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and Streets of Sorrow, an NBC documentary about a support group that helps people cope with the violent death of a family member.

They are recipients of the National Academy of Television Arts and Science's 1998 Silver Circle Award for "outstanding contributions to the television industry."  Marilyn Weiner is the winner of Women-In-Film's 1997 "Women of Vision Award" for creative excellence. 

In a contest sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Hal Weiner won first prize at the 2002 Larry Neal Writers' Competition for his dramatic screenplay, The Jerusalem Syndrome.  He also won first prize in the Washington, DC screenwriting contest for his screenplay, Shadows.

Through the early 1980s, Marilyn & Hal Weiner produced over a dozen after-school dramas for PBS and documentaries for major corporations and non-profit organizations.  During this period, the Weiners also established an international film distribution division. 

Overseeing a staff of twenty, including marketing and advertising specialists, they produced and acquired over 500 titles.  In 1983 they sold their distribution subsidiary to Gulf & Western, enabling them to devote their full energies to producing feature films and high profile documentaries for prime-time television (primarily PBS and NBC).  Their films have been shot on location in more than 30 countries on five continents, translated into numerous languages and broadcast throughout the world.

Marilyn Weiner was appointed by Mayor Anthony Williams and currently serves as a DC Commissioner for the Arts and Humanities.  She is on the Board of Directors of Washington's Filmfest DC.  Ms. Weiner served on the Board of Directors of the Committee To Promote Washington, DC, the Washington Urban League, Women-In-Film and the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company.  She has been President of the Washington Film Council, Vice-President of Women-In-Film, consultant to the National Commission on Working Women, Chairperson of the Advisory Committee to the Washington Office of Motion Picture Development, and Proposal Review Panelist for the National Science Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.