Hilan Warshaw

Director, writer, editor

MAHLER IN NEW YORK is a new documentary in production by Hilan Warshaw that recreates these momentous last years in the life of an émigré genius, through archival sources, interviews, musical performances, and modern-day location footage. For broadcast on SVT and other networks.

Mahler in New York

When two former lovers meet by chance at a train station, their encounter takes an unexpected turn. A story of love and the road not taken.

In the Station

SECRET SONG tells the gripping true story behind the creation of a 20th century musical masterpiece– weaving together dramatic reenactments, documentary, and vérité footage of legendary musicians Renée Fleming and the Emerson String Quartet.

Secret Song

EarShot is the first ongoing, systematic program for developing relationships between composers and orchestras on the national level, developed by the American Composers Orchestra to ensure the vibrant future of new American orchestral music.

EarShot Atlanta

My Boléro

In the Key of Bach

"Rachmaninoff Revisited" is the first comprehensive biography of the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. (1873-1943) Featuring commentary and performances by today's most respected pianists, this is a story of overcoming severe hardships and eventual redemption through the power of music.

Rachmaninoff Revisited

The Drama League: 100 Years and Counting

By 1939, 30,000 intellectuals and radicals were exiled from Europe, 80% were Jewish. These dramatic events sent many of the greatest minds of the 20th century into exile in the United States The manna of creative intensity that hovered over Berlin in the 20's, - in music, art, theater and film -that glow of aesthetic productivity was extinguished.

Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood

Follows the work of the architects from all over world who came together to design the UN Headquarters in New York.

A Workshop for Peace

Spotlighting distinguished pianists, string players, composers and conductors. Offers engaging and informative discussions led by Istomin on the state of the art of music.

Great Conversations in Music

Every two years, The Gilmore, an organization that fosters and supports a passion for keyboard music and artistry, showcases lesser-known young pianists, one of whom receives the $300,000 award.

In the Key of G

A Russian soldier goes AWOL in the Chechen wilderness.

Wolves of Chechnya

This is the story of two outsiders: composer Arnold Schoenberg and painter Richard Gerstl. Each was a rebel, a visionary in his field. They were drawn together by passion for their art- and for the same woman. Their meeting drove one of them to his death, and changed the course of artistic history. Commissioned by ORF (Austria), in association with SVT (Sweden) and YLE (Finland).

Through the Darkness

As the storm clouds of Nazism and war gather in Europe, Henry Morgenthau, Jr.-- Secretary of the Treasury and President Roosevelt's only Jewish Cabinet member-- must decide how much to do to save Europe's Jews, in the face of indifference and bigotry at home.