Howard Bernstein(II)
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Howard Bernstein has produced and run some of the most important news
and current affairs programs on Canadian television. At the CTV
Television Network, Bernstein produced Canada AM and was Head of News
Specials. In that capacity, he produced documentaries and news stories
from Beirut during the civil war, from Tokyo (1979 G7 Summit), Hong
Kong (Vietnamese Boat People), Israel (30th Anniversary), London (the
Royal Wedding of Prince Charles), Belfast (The death of Bobby Sands),
Washington (The Camp David Accords and the Iranian Hostage Crisis). At
CBC-TV, he was Senior Editor of The Journal, Executive Producer of News
and Current Affairs at CBC-Toronto, Executive Producer of Sunday
Morning and station manager of CBLT, the network's flagship station in
Toronto. He was also News Director at Global Television and Executive
Producer of Current Affairs at TV Ontario. At TV Ontario, he produced
two international documentaries, one on the war in Bosnia and, from
Poland, a look at a family's return to Aushwitz. He has produced series
and documentaries for CBC, Newsworld, the NFB, Discovery Channel and
Life Network. Bernstein was executive producer of the most successful
documentary in Canadian television history. Runaways: 24 Hours on the
Street was watched by 4.1 million Canadians in a single showing and won
14 Canadian and International awards for television production and
journalism. This documentary helped create 48 Hours at CBS and two
drama series in Canada. From 1996-98, Bernstein produced a series of
cinéma-vérité news documentaries for CPAC, including election coverage
in Canada and a unique series on Hong Kong's first election under
Communist rule. At CPAC, he helped create a new way of covering events
and trained the CPAC producers and camera operators in the art of
vérité shooting. After recently concluding 10 years of teaching
broadcast journalism at Ryerson Polytechnic University, which is
recognized as Canada's leading school of journalism, Bernstein ran his
own production company, Infinite Monkeys Productions, Inc. Infinite
Monkeys Productions has produced two documentary series in association
with MicroTainment Plus International: the Gemini-nominated Urban Angels of Medicine (1999) for
Discovery Channel, for which he was Executive Producer, Producer and
Director; and Zoo Diaries (2000) for Life Network, for which he is Producer and
Director. He was executive producer of "Happily Ever After: The
Elizabeth Manley Story" for CBC. He also executive produced Glenn Gould: The Russian Journey (2002) and
Rebirth of an Opera: Persée in the Court of Atelier (2004).