Manifold Productions - Michael Pack / Gina Cappo Pack

MICHAEL PACK

Michael Pack is President of Manifold Productions, Inc., an independent film and television production company, which he founded in 1977. Through Manifold Productions, Mr. Pack has written, directed, and produced numerous award-winning nationally broadcast documentaries as well as corporate and educational films.

From 2003-2006, Mr. Pack served as Senior Vice President for Television Programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He restructured the programming department and launched several new initiatives. These inclded: America at a Crossroads (a series of 20 documentary films addressing issues facing America in the wake of the attacks of 9/11) and the American History and Civics Initiative (innovative, new media designed to address the crisis of historical amnesia in middle and high school students).

In 2002, President Bush nominated and the Senate confirmed Mr. Pack to serve on the National Council on the Humanities, which oversees the National Endowment for the Humanities. He served from July 2002 to February 2005.

In 1993, Mr. Pack served as Co-Chair of the International TV Council at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In this capacity, he oversaw the Council's efforts to determine the feasibility of launching a cooperative program between American public television producers and stations and their counterparts in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. These programs were intended to assist the nations of the former Soviet bloc in their transition to democratic and free-market based societies as well as help support the growth of independent media.

Previously, Mr. Pack received a political appointment as Director of WORLDNET, the U.S. Information Agency's global satellite network. WORLDNET produced, acquired, and distributed programs to over 127 countries and over 200 cities on all continents twenty-four hours a day. Mr. Pack oversaw WORLDNET's 291 employees and annual budget of $23 million. Mr. Pack launched the U.S. government's first foreign language news and public affairs program, Window on America. WORLDNET, now called VOA-TV, has merged with the Voice of America.

Mr. Pack attended Yale College, the University of California at Berkeley, and studied film at New York University. Before launching Manifold Productions, Mr. Pack worked extensively in production and post-production. He worked as a staff editor for RAI, the Italian TV network, and for Pathe News in New York. Mr. Pack and his wife, Gina, who also works at Manifold Productions, have three sons and reside in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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Mr. Pack's major television credits include: God and the Inner City, narrated by Phylicia Rashad (2003); Rediscovering George Washington, hosted by Richard Brookhiser (2002); The Fall of Newt Gingrich, narrated by Blair Brown (2000); The Rodney King Incident: Race and Justice in America, narrated by Robert Prosky (1998); Inside the Republican Revolution: The First Hundred Days, hosted by Don Lambro (1995); Hollywood vs. Religion, hosted by Michael Medved (1995); Campus Culture Wars: Five Stories about Political Correctness, narrated by Lindsay Crouse (1993); America's Political Parties, hosted by Ben Wattenberg and David Gergen (1988 & 1992); Fire from the Sun: The Search for Fusion Energy, hosted by E. G. Marshall (1990); Hollywood's Favorite Heavy: Businessmen on Prime Time TV, hosted by Eli Wallach (1987); among others. All have been nationally broadcast on PBS, except The Rodney King Incident, which premiered on TLC.

GINA CAPPO PACK

Gina Cappo Pack is the Vice President of Manifold Productions. Mrs. Pack's background is in corporate management, marketing, and personnel. Her skills and experience as an executive lend direction to the organization, while helping to maintain an efficient use of company resources. She has contributed to a variety of Manifold projects since 1987.

Mrs. Pack worked in planning and new product development before she left corporate management at Pandick Technologies, a subsidiary of a financial printing firm, to join her husband at Manifold Productions in 1987. Along with coordinating and expanding offices in twelve cities, she worked closely with the sales force and outside clients, while reporting to the president. Previously, Mrs. Pack consulted for a variety of small, expanding businesses, including a furniture design firm, an architectural training program, a law firm, a technology company, and a dance studio. Prior to this, Mrs. Pack managed a division of TemPositions, a New York temporary help firm, where she was responsible for personnel interviewing, placement, and training, while assisting the sales force and managing departmental operations.

Mrs. Pack is a graduate of Hunter College of the City University of New York. She is married to Michael Pack; they have three school age "productions" and reside in Chevy Chase, Maryland.