Charles Hobson
is founder and artistic head of Vanguard, whose distinguished
career spans four decades and who has worked extensively with PBS and the
BBC. Charles is winner of an Emmy Award, the Japan Prize 'Special Citation,'
and the CINE Golden Eagle Award; has been ranked one of the fifty top producers
in the film and television industry by Millimeter magazine; and was
a Fulbright Scholar (Germany) in 1996. Among his many credits are From
Jumpstreet: A Story of Black Music (a 13-part PBS series), The Africans
(a 9-part series co-produced with the BBC), the Emmy Award-winning television
series Like It Is (WABC-TV), Global Links (a 6-part series
on international development, co-produced with the World Bank for PBS), and
Spaces (a 6-part science series, funded by the Department of Education).
Charles and Vanguard specialize
in international co-productions, including their current project, Harlem
in Montmartre: Paris Jazz, scheduled to air in the winter of 2009, a co-production
with Great Performances/Thirteen/WNET (New York) and Ideale Audience International
(Paris).
