Jayasri Hart

Producer-director-editor

jayasrihart@earthlink.net 

Hartfilms

2721 Piedmont Avenue, #3

Montrose, CA 91020

818-414-7244

 

Jayasri (Joyce) Hart is an educational filmmaker from India now based in Los Angeles.  She specializes in feature-length documentaries on ethnic history and social issues which she also edits for other producers.  As a graphic artist, she has illustrated haiku collections and book cover s for her husband, writer William Hart.  She studied western classical music, and plays the violin.

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

 

Freelance editor, producer, director

1987-present

KPAS Channel 55, Pasadena
Half-City Productions, Pasadena
Armenian Film Foundation, Thousand Oaks

Part-time Lecturer, English/Film

1987-2002

California State University, Los Angeles
<http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/jhart2>

Script Analyst

1987

Howard Rosenman Productions, Disney Studios, Burbank

Executive Producer

1985-86

Educational Media Center, Hyderabad, India

Producer-writer-editor

1976-82

Dept. of Radio-TV, Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India

Writer-anchor

1973 summer

BBC Radio (World Service), London, U.K.

 

 

 

SELECTED CREDITS

 

 

Producer, director, editor

2007

Sisters of Selma, Catholic nuns in the Civil Rights Movement. Hartfilms & Alabama Public TV <http://www.aptv.org/AS/Sisters/index.asp>

Editor

2001

Pictures from the Old Country, an American’s search for her roots in Slovakia. Manifest Films, producer-director Susan Marcinkus

Editor

2001

Con Brio, biography of piano master-teacher Karl Ulrich Schnabel. Love Music Productions, producer Mary Lou Chayes

Producer, director, editor

1998

Roots in the Sand, Mexican-Punjabi marriages in California. Hartfilms <http://www.pbs.org/rootsinthesand>

Co-producer, videographer, editor 

1997

Simple Things, an electronic bulletin board for Juvenile Hall inmates.  RLS Ventures, producer Richard Samuels

Co-producer, director, editor

1990

Power & Fear, age discrimination in Hollywood.  International Documentary Association, executive producer Robert Guenette

 

EDUCATION

M.F.A.  Cinema-TV Production

1985

University of Southern California, Los Angeles

M. Litt.  Language Acquisition

1976

Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages, India

Diploma French Language & History

1973

Univ. of Paris-Sorbonne, France

B.A.  English Literature

1972

Univ. of Oxford, U.K.