Stuart Sender has written, produced and directed award-winning news and documentary programs for public and network television in the United States and internationally. His credits include the Oscar-nominated documentary film Prisoner of Paradise (prisonerofparadise.com) which also received a Directors Guild nomination for best documentary feature.


His career includes a stint at CBS news and working as Senior Producer of the weekly PBS newsmagazine South Africa Now which won a Polk Award for excellence in journalism. He also produced the first exclusive interview with Nelson Mandela following Mandela's release from prison for the Phil Donahue Show.


Most recently, he has written, produced and directed (with his wife and partner Julie Bergman Sender through their company Balcony Films www.balconyfilms.com) a number of documentary pieces and celebrity-driven political films and commercials: including pieces featuring Will Ferrell (whitehousewest.com), Stevie Wonder (at November2.org) Helen Hunt (on-line at Saveroe.com) and Jason Alexander (Outsourceoutrage.com); and documentary pieces for the American Civil Liberties Union and Mother Jones Magazine, among others. Balcony films, a media consulting firm and film production company, specializes in outside-the-box media messaging, merging storytelling with policy and state-of-the-art distribution strategies for progressive issues, causes and campaigns, as well as films.

Blog Entries by Stuart Sender

The C Word

Posted September 3, 2008 | 01:42 PM (EST)


So what to make of Governor Sarah Palin? Her candidacy is supposed to attract women to the Republican ticket and is presumably making happy the 'conservative' base of the Republican party.

Pre-emptive war and nation building, rolling back civil rights and a woman's right to choose and promising to...

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Ted Koppel Tells Us Why the Media Fails to Cover the Real Issues

Posted August 27, 2008 | 01:50 PM (EST)


Lots of speeches and talk about the middle class and healthcare and taxes, but too often the perspectives of working people are missing from the debate and the media coverage. So we're happy to be here be covering the convention with SEIU, the Service Employees International Union. SEIU understands that...

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Worse Than Watergate

Posted October 29, 2005 | 05:54 PM (EST)


In the months before the 2004 election, my wife and partner Julie Bergman Sender and I decided to interview a number of leading conservatives about what they thought of the Bush administration. All of the interviews were with men who had played prominent roles in previous Republican administrations. All wanted...

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In a Fuhrer about New Orleans

Posted October 25, 2005 | 01:40 PM (EST)


As I tried to check out for a few minutes on Friday night and into a bit of escapist television, I landed instead on 20/20’s report on Lamb and Lynx Gaede, who were described as “the Olsen Twins of Hate,” blonde, blue-eyed 13-year old daughters of a white supremacist mom...

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