Gabrielle Savage Dockterman
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
An award-winning producer, director, writer, and editor, Gabrielle
Savage Dockterman is the founder and President of Angel Devil
Productions, Inc., where she creates moving, gripping films that
enlighten. _Missing In America (2005)_ is her feature film debut. Prior to developing
feature films, Dockterman produced and directed many award-winning
educational interactive media projects. Her specialty is creating
engaging stories that provide a context for learning. Her critically
acclaimed CD-ROMs and videodiscs are used in thousands of classrooms
and dozens of museums around the world. Her work has been funded by
major grants from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of
Education, and numerous museums, corporations, and publishers.
Dockterman was the Executive Producer of "Rainforest Researchers," an
interactive CD-ROM shot on location in Indonesia, developed with
scientists at Harvard University, and published to schools by 'Tom Snyder Productions'
(a Scholastic company). This interdisciplinary, dramatic adventure
highlights the scientific and social issues facing the tropical
rainforests of Southeast Asia. On a remote jungle island off of
Sumatra, she and her crew climbed 150-foot trees in primary forest,
where shamans still use medicinal plants to treat their sick. In a
unique collaboration, she and the scientists and crew involved also
functioned as the cast in the story, along with the native Mentawai
people. "Rainforest Researchers" won the prestigious Codie Award, the
ITVA Golden Reel, the Technology & Learning Award of Excellence, the
NewMedia Invision Award, and a Parent's Choice Award.
Dockterman also served as Producer, Director, and Editor of "Minds-On
Science," a multimedia series for classrooms commissioned by the
Smithsonian Institution, where it is on permanent display at the
National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. Dockterman
directed over 70 actors in these dramatic narratives. Her other
educational projects include the best-selling interactive video
adventures, "The Great Solar System Rescue" (winner, New York Film
Festival, and the Technology and Learning Award of Excellence), and
"The Great Ocean Rescue" (Teachers' Choice Award from Learning
Magazine).
In the 1980s, Dockterman was Vice President of Production and Design
for Digital Techniques, an early pioneer in multimedia. Under her
direction, her team created some of the first interactive video
touch-screen exhibits, including a series of groundbreaking exhibits
for an international consortium of science museums.
Dockterman has served as guest speaker at SIGGRAPH, the Nebraska
Videodisc Symposium, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and
elsewhere, addressing the use of interactive computer graphics and
video in educational environments. She was formerly on the review board
of The Journal of Computing in Higher Education, as an expert on TV
media and the use of technology in grades K-12. Dockterman is an honors
graduate in engineering and computer science from Harvard University,
and a Thomas Alva Edison Scholar. While at Harvard, she also studied
acting under Jeremy Geidt at the American Repertory Theater.
Savage Dockterman is the founder and President of Angel Devil
Productions, Inc., where she creates moving, gripping films that
enlighten. _Missing In America (2005)_ is her feature film debut. Prior to developing
feature films, Dockterman produced and directed many award-winning
educational interactive media projects. Her specialty is creating
engaging stories that provide a context for learning. Her critically
acclaimed CD-ROMs and videodiscs are used in thousands of classrooms
and dozens of museums around the world. Her work has been funded by
major grants from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of
Education, and numerous museums, corporations, and publishers.
Dockterman was the Executive Producer of "Rainforest Researchers," an
interactive CD-ROM shot on location in Indonesia, developed with
scientists at Harvard University, and published to schools by 'Tom Snyder Productions'
(a Scholastic company). This interdisciplinary, dramatic adventure
highlights the scientific and social issues facing the tropical
rainforests of Southeast Asia. On a remote jungle island off of
Sumatra, she and her crew climbed 150-foot trees in primary forest,
where shamans still use medicinal plants to treat their sick. In a
unique collaboration, she and the scientists and crew involved also
functioned as the cast in the story, along with the native Mentawai
people. "Rainforest Researchers" won the prestigious Codie Award, the
ITVA Golden Reel, the Technology & Learning Award of Excellence, the
NewMedia Invision Award, and a Parent's Choice Award.
Dockterman also served as Producer, Director, and Editor of "Minds-On
Science," a multimedia series for classrooms commissioned by the
Smithsonian Institution, where it is on permanent display at the
National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. Dockterman
directed over 70 actors in these dramatic narratives. Her other
educational projects include the best-selling interactive video
adventures, "The Great Solar System Rescue" (winner, New York Film
Festival, and the Technology and Learning Award of Excellence), and
"The Great Ocean Rescue" (Teachers' Choice Award from Learning
Magazine).
In the 1980s, Dockterman was Vice President of Production and Design
for Digital Techniques, an early pioneer in multimedia. Under her
direction, her team created some of the first interactive video
touch-screen exhibits, including a series of groundbreaking exhibits
for an international consortium of science museums.
Dockterman has served as guest speaker at SIGGRAPH, the Nebraska
Videodisc Symposium, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and
elsewhere, addressing the use of interactive computer graphics and
video in educational environments. She was formerly on the review board
of The Journal of Computing in Higher Education, as an expert on TV
media and the use of technology in grades K-12. Dockterman is an honors
graduate in engineering and computer science from Harvard University,
and a Thomas Alva Edison Scholar. While at Harvard, she also studied
acting under Jeremy Geidt at the American Repertory Theater.