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Holly Stadtler began her career in news and worked for six years for NBC Nightly News in Holly Stadtler began her career in news and worked for six years for NBC Nightly News in Washington, D.C. as a Unit Manager and Production Manager. She was in the oval office when President Ronald Reagan gave his farewell address to the nation. She was camerawoman for Willard Scott of the Today Show during a 4-month long NABET strike and also during this period filmed many well known politicians, scholars and others including former President George H. Bush when he was Vice President. From news, Stadtler moved into documentary production at the Discovery Channel where she worked for six years before starting her own production company, Dream Catcher Films, Inc. Her varied field experiences have taken her from sound stages in Hollywood filming with the popular Stuart Copeland (former drummer for the POLICE), to the swamps of the Everglades in search of rare panthers. She climbed Africa’s highest peak while filming as novice hikers challenged the mountain to raise awareness for sick children, had the privilege of witnessing the world’s largest land predator, a Kodiak brown bear nursing her cubs in Alaska, and toured a rarely glimpsed wooded canopy of over 400 nesting endangered wood storks — all for the camera lens. She has interviewed biologists, scholars, politicians, and unsung heroes and traveled to some of the world’s most magical places while enduring air sickness, relentless mosquitoes, frostbite, and intense equatorial heat. She has spent sleepless nights under the African sky as lions and hyenas prowled through camp, strained for hours in blinds waiting for animals to appear for the lens, and logged countless hours on the phone, at a computer, and in airport terminals. She has also been an adjunct professor at both American University and George Washington University, teaching documentary production.

She has treasured all of these experiences while amassing a body of work, which includes production and direction of 13 documentary projects and collaboration on over 100 additional hours of television and film. Of these, she is most fond of the movies about our natural world.

Her independent films have screened around the world at the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival, the Durban International Film Festival, Terra Nostra in Costa Rica, as well as the prestigious Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, West Hollywood International Film Festival, Rhode Island International Festival and many others. She has won numerous awards including a national Emmy nomination, 5 CINE golden eagles, Silver and Bronze Telly awards, several Communicator awards, Gold and Silver awards from the NY festivals and many more. Recently, she has taken time away from film production to travel the US with her husband and dog in an RV but is currently developing several documentary film projects.

Holly Stadtler began her career in news and worked for six years for NBC Nightly News in Washington, D.C. as a Unit Manager and Production Manager. She was in the oval office when President Ronald Reagan gave his farewell address to the nation. She was camerawoman for Willard Scott of the Today Show during a 4-month long NABET strike and also during this period filmed many well known politicians, scholars and others including former President George H. Bush when he was Vice President. From news, Stadtler moved into documentary production at the Discovery Channel where she worked for six years before starting her own production company, Dream Catcher Films, Inc. Her varied field experiences have taken her from sound stages in Hollywood filming with the popular Stuart Copeland (former drummer for the POLICE), to the swamps of the Everglades in search of rare panthers. She climbed Africa’s highest peak while filming as novice hikers challenged the mountain to raise awareness for sick children, had the privilege of witnessing the world’s largest land predator, a Kodiak brown bear nursing her cubs in Alaska, and toured a rarely glimpsed wooded canopy of over 400 nesting endangered wood storks — all for the camera lens. She has interviewed biologists, scholars, politicians, and unsung heroes and traveled to some of the world’s most magical places while enduring air sickness, relentless mosquitoes, frostbite, and intense equatorial heat. She has spent sleepless nights under the African sky as lions and hyenas prowled through camp, strained for hours in blinds waiting for animals to appear for the lens, and logged countless hours on the phone, at a computer, and in airport terminals. She has also been an adjunct professor at both American University and George Washington University, teaching documentary production.

She has treasured all of these experiences while amassing a body of work, which includes production and direction of 13 documentary projects and collaboration on over 100 additional hours of television and film. Of these, she is most fond of the movies about our natural world.

Her independent films have screened around the world at the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival, the Durban International Film Festival, Terra Nostra in Costa Rica, as well as the prestigious Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, West Hollywood International Film Festival, Rhode Island International Festival and many others. She has won numerous awards including a national Emmy nomination, 5 CINE golden eagles, Silver and Bronze Telly awards, several Communicator awards, Gold and Silver awards from the NY festivals and many more. Recently, she has taken time away from film production to travel the US with her husband and dog in an RV but is currently developing several documentary film projects.

Holly Stadtler began her career in news and worked for six years for NBC Nightly News in Washington, D.C. as a Unit Manager and Production Manager. She was in the oval office when President Ronald Reagan gave his farewell address to the nation. She was camerawoman for Willard Scott of the Today Show during a 4-month long NABET strike and also during this period filmed many well known politicians, scholars and others including former President George H. Bush when he was Vice President. From news, Stadtler moved into documentary production at the Discovery Channel where she worked for six years before starting her own production company, Dream Catcher Films, Inc. Her varied field experiences have taken her from sound stages in Hollywood filming with the popular Stuart Copeland (former drummer for the POLICE), to the swamps of the Everglades in search of rare panthers. She climbed Africa’s highest peak while filming as novice hikers challenged the mountain to raise awareness for sick children, had the privilege of witnessing the world’s largest land predator, a Kodiak brown bear nursing her cubs in Alaska, and toured a rarely glimpsed wooded canopy of over 400 nesting endangered wood storks — all for the camera lens. She has interviewed biologists, scholars, politicians, and unsung heroes and traveled to some of the world’s most magical places while enduring air sickness, relentless mosquitoes, frostbite, and intense equatorial heat. She has spent sleepless nights under the African sky as lions and hyenas prowled through camp, strained for hours in blinds waiting for animals to appear for the lens, and logged countless hours on the phone, at a computer, and in airport terminals. She has also been an adjunct professor at both American University and George Washington University, teaching documentary production. She has treasured all of these experiences while amassing a body of work, which includes production and direction of 13 documentary projects and collaboration on over 100 additional hours of television and film. Of these, she is most fond of the movies about our natural world. Her independent films have screened around the world at the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival, the Durban International Film Festival, Terra Nostra in Costa Rica, as well as the prestigious Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, West Hollywood International Film Festival, Rhode Island International Festival and many others. She has won numerous awards including a national Emmy nomination, 5 CINE golden eagles, Silver and Bronze Telly awards, several Communicator awards, Gold and Silver awards from the NY festivals and many more. Recently, she has taken time away from film production to travel the US with her husband and dog in an RV but is currently developing several documentary film projects.