Hilan Warshaw
President, Overtone Films
Overtone Films LLC
New York, United States
Representing Overtone Films and Classic Arts Showcase
My organisation
About me
HILAN WARSHAW is an Emmy Award-winning director and writer. He has produced and directed internationally broadcast documentaries and films about classical music including Wagner’s Jews (WDR/ARTE, PBS-WNET, Israel’s Channel 8, Deutsche Welle and others); Secret Song with Renée Fleming and the Emerson String Quartet (SVT, Medici TV, PBS-AllArts, Allegro HD, EuroArts); Through the Darkness: Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Gerstl (ORF, SVT, YLE, Medici TV); My Boléro with Nathalie Stutzmann (PBS-GPB, Medici TV; 2024 Southeast Emmy winner, Best Arts/Entertainment Long Form); In the Key of Bach (PBS-GPB); Honorable Mr. Morgenthau (premiere screenings in 2024); and the forthcoming Mahler in New York (SVT, Czech TV) and The Faces of Carmen (WDR), both for broadcast in 2025. Hilan has directed hundreds of live multi-camera concert captures for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since autumn 2020, including programs broadcast on Medici TV, NBC and PBS stations; he also writes and hosts Piece by Piece, the ASO's series of short videos about the stories behind great music. He has a background as a violinist and orchestral conductor, and attended film school at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he earned his B.F.A. and M.F.A.
Speaker sessions (1)
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
11:30 - 13:00
Avant Première Screening Block 6
The Avant Première Screenings are the centrepiece of Avant Première Music + Media Market, offering exclusive previews to the latest music + dance films from top-tier producers worldwide.