Alvin H. Perlmutter, Director of The Independent Production Fund, has produced television programming for over thirty years.
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[1], Native Land, The World of Abnormal Psychology[2], and The Emperor’s Eye: Art and Power in Industrial China.
He was the creator and executive producer of The Great American Dream Machine and other programs for public television.
In 1994, he married Joan Konner, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.