Michael Shamberg
Shamberg at Web Summit 2017
Born	(1945-05-04) May 4, 1945 (age 78) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater	Washington University in St. Louis
Occupation(s)	Film producer, former Time–Life correspondent
Spouses	Megan Williams ​ ​ (m. 1974; div. 1991)​ Carla Santos Shamberg ​ ​ (m. 1996)​
Children	3

Michael Shamberg (born May 4, 1945)^[1] is an American film producer and former Time–Life correspondent.

Life and career

His credits include Erin Brockovich, A Fish Called Wanda, Garden State, Gattaca, Pulp Fiction and The Big Chill. His production companies include Jersey Films, with Stacey Sher and Danny DeVito, and, as of 2015^[update], Double Feature Films, with Stacey Sher.

In the 1960s and 1970s, counter-culture video collectives extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies. In 1970, Shamberg co-founded a video collective called Raindance Corporation, which published a newspaper-magazine called Radical Software. Raindance Corporation later became TVTV, or Top Value Television. Shamberg and his first wife Megan Williams were founding members of TVTV.^[2] The collective believed new technology could effect social change. An example was Shamberg's work on In Hiding: A Conversation with Abbie Hoffman, broadcast on Public-access television station WNET/13 in May 1975.^[2]

Shamberg described his approach as "guerrilla television" (the title of his 1971 book) because, despite its strategies and tactics similar to warfare, guerrilla television is non-violent and he saw it as a means to break through the barriers imposed by broadcast television, which he called beast television.^{[citation needed]}

His TVTV group's documentary Lord of the Universe, 1974, won a DuPont-Columbia Award in 1975.^[3] The group urged for the use of Sony's Portapak video camera, introduced in 1967, to be merged with the documentary film style and television, and later pioneer use of 3/4" video in their works.^{[citation needed]}

Shamberg is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, MO.^[4]

Filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

As an actor

Thanks

Television

As an editor

As writer