Steven C.F. Anderson is President and Executive Producer of APL. He is a television producer, documentary filmmaker, production and development executive, and communications consultant. Since the mid-1970s, he has served as a creative force behind many commercial, cable and public television projects. For more than 20 years, Steve has also focused on advising, guiding and collaborating with not-for-profit organizations, governmental agencies and international NGOs.

Prior to founding APL in 1983, Steve had stints at Good Morning America, ABC News, The Associated Press and Metromedia / WNEW-TV, with many other radio and TV stops in between. Steve was a member of the original Qube team at Warner Communications, which produced the pilot for MTV. As a consultant for TWA, he outlined the concept for The Travel Channel.

Over the past 30 years, Steve has been involved in dozens of cable TV programs, first as host, later producing documentaries that aired on The Learning Channel, USA Network, ESPN, and the 15-episode, award-winning series The UNICEF Hour on The Discovery Channel. For Parco Productions, Steve produced five Court TV documentary hours.

When APL merged with Globalvision during the mid-1990s, Steve was the series producer of the Emmy Award-nominated PBS series Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television, which ran for four years. Steve also produced the PBS special, Region at Risk and specials for MSNBC, Lifetime and FOX.

During the past few years, Steve developed and produced a variety of public affairs television programming focused on NYC issues including, City Council Forum, a four-year series of public forums live from City Hall; the first televised mayoral debate in 2005, carried on NY1; and two monthly talk series on educational cable television, CityWide and The Urban Agenda.

Steve has produced several films in collaboration with not-for-profit organizations including: Public Agenda, Safe Horizon, Kingsborough Community College, Community Service Society, Food Bank for NYC, City University of New York, NY City Council, JCCA, Community Preservation Corporation, Urban Assembly, Regional Plan Association, ACCION New York, NYC Departments of Environmental Protection and Housing, Preservation & Development, and Women's Commission / International Rescue Committee. (Several of these films have aired on PBS.)

APL's association with UNICEF dates more than 25 years, including several consulting and production projects, with filming in Nepal, Ghana, Guatemala and many other international locations.

Steve has also been associated for more than ten years with the City University of New York's educational channel, CUNY-TV, and served as an adjunct faculty member at Hunter College prior to that.

Native New Yorker. NYU Graduate. Husband. Father of two young men.

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THE APL PRODUCTION TEAM

Sam Shinn (Cinematographer) is an Emmy Award winning producer, director of photography and editor of documentaries focused on political and social issues. His work has been broadcast nationally and internationally in over fifteen countries for PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, BBC, CBC-Canada and all the major cable outlets. Sam's work has also been shown at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. Sam is APL's long-time director of photography.

Agatha Malacos (Associate Producer) is an Emmy Award nominated associate producer who has worked on several television programs, including Good Morning America and 20/20 at ABC News. At APL, her credits include Court TV's Unleashed: Marjorie Knoller & Robert Noel, and the hour-long PBS film, Community Builder: The Life & Legacy of J.C. Nichols. Agatha has had a long association with APL and is a key production team member.

Joe Gentle (Content Coordinator, Assistant Editor) spent his life moving eastward, starting in Milwaukee, taking a break in Ann Arbor to study film, and eventually landing in New York in 2008. He came armed with a sense of adventure, a midwestern work ethic and a precocious knowledge of Final Cut. Joe takes on many roles at APL, but divides most of his time between web content, newsletter editing, and video post production.

Ilan Benatar (Editor) is a video editor who specializes in long form documentary films focused on political and social issues. His work has been broadcast in Europe, the Middle East and the US. Ilan studied film for 5 years in the Sam Speigel Film Institute in Jerusalem, Israel and he is today APL's primary video editor.

Shane Stanfield (Sound Recordist, Audio Engineer) is a director, producer and audio engineer with a forte in music content. He has been in music, television and film for over fourteen years. He played a principle roll in the launching of Austin's “ME Television,” a 24-hour regional cable network dedicated to supporting, promoting and discovering talented local and regional independent artists. He hangs his hat in NYC and continues his long running relationship with APL as our primary audio dude!

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