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Tatge/Lasseur Productions, Inc. is a documentary production company dedicated to creating innovative, quality programming. The company was founded in 1983 by Catherine Tatge and Dominique Lasseur, both veteran producers of film and television with extensive international experience. Between them they have brought to the company an impressive array of credits and a dynamic, thoughtful approach to filmmaking. Catherine Tatge recently completed a documentary on Walter Cronkite for American Masters. Projects in development pre-production include Small Wonders, a series on the future of nanotechnology produced in conjunction with Columbia University, and The History and Future of Democracy, a two-hour special on the rise of the democracy hosted by Fareed Zakaria, bestselling author and editor of Newsweek International. The Question of God: C.S. Lewis & Sigmund Freud, a four-part documentary series exploring the contrasting worldviews of these two men, aired nationally on PBS on September 15th and 22nd, 2004. Other recent projects include Justice and Jihad and Islam vs. Islam, two programs on Islam and the West produced in conjunction with Public Affairs Television. These programs were broadcast in the summer of 2002 as special episodes of the weekly news show "NOW with Bill Moyers." Ms. Tatge and Mr. Lasseur also recently completed Holo Mai Pele, a traditional Hawaian dance performance uusing innovative elements of Western theater to explore an ancient creation myth native to Hawai'i. Holo Mai Pele aired on PBS' Great Performances in October of 2001. Breaking the Silence, a PBS documentary on domestic violence, was also completed and broadcast in 2001. In 1999, Ms. Tatge and Mr. Lasseur completed a performance documentary entitled CeCe Winans: A Gospel Celebration produced in association with GalileeCom, LLC and 1 Roof Productions. They also completed Fooling With Words a two-hour Bill Moyers special on the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in the country, and a children's pilot program First Steps in Music: The Little Red Caboose. They recently co-produced a documentary for La Sept/ARTE on Dawn Upshaw entitled Voice of an Angel as well as J. Carter Brown's Rings of Passion: Five Emotions in World Art for PBS and Ovation TV - The Arts Network. Ms. Tatge and Mr. Lasseur produced the ninety-minute documentary entitled Playing with Fire: The Tenth Van Cliburn Piano Competition, which aired on PBS in October of 1997. Prior to that TLP completed a documentary commissioned by the Congress of the United States, Introduction to Congressional Retreat, shown at the 1997 Congressional Retreat to more than 300 U.S. representatives seeking to restore civility to the halls of Congress. Over the past two decades, TLP has developed a close working relationship with Public Affairs Television. TLP produced three programs on the nature of hate, co-produced and hosted by Bill Moyers: Beyond Hate, Facing Hate with Elie Wiesel, and Hate on Trial. In addition, Ms. Tatge served as an independent producer/director for two Bill Moyers television series, Genesis: A Living Conversation and the acclaimed 1988 PBS series, Bill Moyers: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, for which she received an Emmy Award. Ms. Tatge also independently produced and directed a four-hour documentary series entitled The Creative Spirit for Perlmutter Productions, which aired in April 1992 on PBS. TLP's expansive body of work in the area of cultural programming has earned them a reputation as leaders in arts filmmaking. For American Masters on PBS, TLP produced Robert Motherwell and the New York School: Storming the Citadel about the abstract expressionist painter and Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed, a co-production with Caméras Continentales, BBC, and La Sept/Arte. TLP also produced a documentary entitled Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and a television version of Bill T. Jones' dance production Still/Here for Amaya Distribution and KTCA/Alive TV. For PBS' Great Performances and Dance in America, Tatge/Lasseur Productions produced Three By Three with The Alvin Ailey Dance Theater; Central Ballet of China: On The Move and Finding The Circle with American Indian Dance Theater. In 1993, TLP produced the feature version of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker starring the New York City Ballet and Macaulay Culkin. To further its commitment to public television, Tatge/Lasseur founded Internatioal Cultural Programming in 1986. This not-for-profit corporation, now renamed Global Village Media, is dedicated to creating documentaries, performance programs, and multi-media educational experiences that inspire, inform, entertain and motivate. ICP media is committed to bringing people, culture and ideas together through new technologies and community involvement.