THE FILMMAKERS
Jamie Hammond, Producer
Jamie Hammond is a member of the PGA (Producers Guild of America) and the National Association of Television Arts and Science and has produced a dozen national television series during her career.
Ms. Hammond is an Executive Producer and Co-creator of
Biz Kid$ — highlighting financial education and youth entrepreneurship across the world and airing on PBS stations across the U.S. BizKid$ received fourteen EMMY nominations, winning two national EMMY awards. The series was recognized for the excellence of its educational content and has been used in educational curriculum by teachers across the country.
She was the coordinating producer for Bill Nye the Science Guy,delivering one hundred episodes to international syndication and national distribution on PBS. Bill Nye received over thirty nominations, resulting in twenty national EMMY Awards. The series is screened in classrooms throughout theUnited States in the furtherance of science education and has been recognized by the Smithsonian Museum as iconic television.
Ms. Hammond was the Senior Producer for fifteen interstitial segments titled 60 Seconds of Science for the Disney Channel. She also wrote and produced a 48-episode video series for the Oregon Department of Education, engaging youth in eating healthy foods.
In addition, Ms. Hammond produced two documentaries, Three Minutes to Change the World and Absent Minded Inventions and the Search for Flubber, for which she received a National Prime Time EMMY Nomination.
Since 1999, she has been a producer and member of the creative team that developed and produced Second Opinion for national distribution on PBS over seventeen seasons — which has the distinction of being the only medical series to receive CME status by the AMA for medical professionals.
Upon relocating to Seattle in 1992, Ms. Hammond has produced eleven other national series for public television, including the first two seasons of Master Chef — the first competition cooking series airing nationally on PBS in all markets.
William Winship, Writer/Director
A veteran of fifteen years in professional theatre before he made his first film, William Winship has won numerous awards as a playwright and stage director on both sides of the Atlantic, staging plays in London, Edinburgh and Seattle.
As a playwright, Mr. Winship received the prestigious Stanley Kramer Award for his first play, The Ballplayer, and served artistic residencies in both the U.S. and the U.K. — serving twice as the Seattle Arts Commission’s Artist-in-Residence and, also, as Director-in-Residence at the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells, England.
Working as a documentary filmmaker, William Winship was honored with an EMMY nomination for writing, directing and editing the acclaimed PBS historical documentary Pioneers In Aviation.
Mr. Winship’s recently published memoir, The Canandaigua Letters — chronicling his experience as an infantry sergeant serving on the Korean DMZ during the late 1960s — was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by one of New York’s most distinguished historical societies.