Marion "Muffie" Meyer is an American director, whose productions include documentaries, theatrical features, television series and children’s films.
Her work has been selected for festivals in Japan, Greece, London, Edinburgh, Cannes, Toronto, Chicago and New York, and she has been twice nominated by the Directors Guild of America.
Meyer worked with pioneering cinema verité documentarians Albert and David Maysles as one of the directors and editors of Grey Gardens (1975).
[8][9] Hosted by Cokie Roberts, it featured performances by prominent journalists and politicians Mario Cuomo, Ed Koch, Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, William F. Buckley, Andrea Mitchell, Phil Donahue, Forrest Sawyer, Robert MacNeil, Al Roker, and many others.
While a number of the films Middlemarch produced focus on the founding of America (including the Peabody Award-winning mini-series, Liberty!
The American Revolution,[11][12][13][14][15][16] and Emmy award winning Benjamin Franklin),[17][18] their documentary subjects have also included science, medicine, and the arts.
Notable among them are: The Crash of 1929,[19] a one-hour program for American Experience, which traces the "New Era" of prosperity that ends with the great stock market crash of 1929; Behind the Scenes,[20][21] a 10-part series for children on the arts, hosted by Penn and Teller, and featuring celebrated British artist David Hockney, Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor (The Lion King), jazz legend Max Roach, choreographer David Parsons, and The Simpsons creator Matt Groening; American Photography – a Century of Images, a three-hour series about the impact of photography on America in the 20th century; Dancing, two programs in the international series on dance; The New Medicine,[22][23][24] a two-hour special about the humanistic practice of medicine; Saving the National Treasures, a NOVA special about the National Archives’ restoration of the Declaration of Independence; Alexander Hamilton,[25] a two-hour documentary for American Experience, starring Tony Award-winner Brían F. O'Byrne; Dolley Madison,[26] a feature-length documentary for American Experience, starring Tony Award-nominee Eve Best and Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays.
[28] 2012, Best Documentary, Nickel Independent Film Festival for The Lost Bird Project[29] 2010, Library of Congress Selects Grey Gardens for National Film Registry[7] 2006, The FREDDIE Awards: International Health and Medical Media Award for The New Medicine.