Media and Policy Foundation:

For decades, it has been recognized that, like the weather, American culture moves from West to East. The societal trends that will define the United States in 2020 are today becoming evident in California.

Located in California, the Media and Policy Center Foundation seeks to be the crucible where these societal trends are examined as to how they effect change and make a difference in our global community.

With its population of 31 million and an economy that surpasses that of France, the world's fifth largest, California is the primary "opinion leader" for marketers. Thus, products are designed to appeal to Californians in the well-founded belief that the rest of the nation will follow.

The same is true of politics; it was in California that the power of the media was first utilized to sway voters. Today, the media is the foremost tool of those wishing to shape minds and drive behaviors.

The Media and Policy Center is located in California, and was designed to create, organize, and produce innovative film, television, print, multimedia, and software programming dealing with the emerging issues of social welfare, public policy, education, the environment, and healthcare.

It presently is funding production of Edens Lost & Found, a comprehensive program including a public television broadcast, and an extensive scope of community outreach projects dealing with urban sustainability.

Harry Wiland's and Dale Bell's individual productions have won one Academy Award (Woodstock), five Emmys, one Peabody, two Christophers, two Cine Golden Eagles, four Childrens' Acts, among other awards and nominations.

Their collective films for PBS, networks, cable, and cinema represent an array of styles including journalism, documentary, dramatic feature film, performance, and industrial. (National Geographic Specials, Kennedy Center Tonight, The Chemical People, WonderWorks, and Johnny Cash.)

The family caregiving documentary, And Thou Shalt Honor, is Wiland-Bell Production's latest award-winning project. It was cited by PBS as "Program of Note" and "Program of the Month" (October 2002). ATSH was the Platinum Award Winner at Worldfest Houston 2003 and the 2003 Media Award Winner at AAHSA.

Beverly Baroff is Producer, Writer and Editor for the Edens Lost & Found series and has functioned in this capacity on many Wiland-Bell Productions. A staff member since 2001, her credits at Wiland-Bell include: the two hour PBS special & Thou Shalt Honor, nine regional Caregiving Town Hall Meetings, ten videos for the & Thou Shalt Honor Caregiving Resource Library, The GreenHouses Project, Ten Tools, City of Refuge, and the Phyllis Shelton Video Series.

Beverly is a veteran documentary filmmaker as well as a feature film writer. Among her many credits, Beverly co-directed, wrote and co-edited the IMAX film Race The Wind, a MaGillivray Freeman Production. She won a Peabody award for producing and editing the PBS special Kennedy Center Tonight: Stravinsky's Firebird as performed by Dance Theatre of Harlem. Beverly produced, edited and was nominated for a local EMMY for the 90 minute PBS special A Night to Remember. Her ballet short Pavane for a Dead Princess played on Arts & Entertainment for five years and was in the Chicago Women's Film Festival.

A member of both the WGA and IATSE Editors Union, her credits include directing and editing segments for NBC's Real People, The Disney Channel, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox Studios, Dave Bell & Associates, many independent productions and several production companies in Chicago.

Beverly has written fifteen screenplays. She wrote the original screenplay Dirty Pool, a co-production of Interscope Films, Witt-Thomas, and Pffeifer-Guinzberg, with Michelle Pfeiffer set to star. Beverly wrote Whirlpools for Propaganda Films. Her original screenplay Let the Cowgirls Ride was optioned by Academy Award nominated producer/director Herbert Ross. She currently has in active development the feature film Burgundy Stars and is working on a musical about the young Sophie Tucker.

Beverly graduated cum laude from Mundelein College, Chicago with a double major in film and English Literature. She studied film for two years at Columbia College and screen writing at UCLA. She was Valedictorian at LaSalle High School, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Beverly is happily married to Academy Award winning re-recording mixer Elliot Tyson. They are president and vice president of their own production company: Wild Pony Productions, Inc. Their daughter Brianna Tyson, an actress and writer, worked as an assistant editor on Edens Lost & Found, and currently is finishing in her final year at New York University's Tisch School for the Performing Arts.

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