Overtone Films, LLC was founded in 2009 by filmmaker HILAN WARSHAW to produce film projects of all kinds, with a special emphasis on films related to music and the arts.
HILAN WARSHAW, Producer/Director
HILAN WARSHAW is a filmmaker, writer, and educator based in New York City. Through his production company, Overtone Films LLC, he produces and directs independent projects as well as videos for organizations including Carnegie Hall, the League of American Orchestras, and the Dicapo Opera Theatre. In addition to his producing/directing work, his writing credits include the PBS documentary A Workshop for Peace; his video editing credits include PBS films such as Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood (PBS/ARTE), In the Key of G, and the miniseries Great Conversations in Music.
He has written research articles about Wagnerian opera and the film industry that were published by McFarland Press, The Wagner Journal, and Wagner Notes, and he recently wrote the film-related entries for the new Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia (forthcoming in 2013 from Cambridge University Press). His other published writing includes program notes for Carnegie Hall and the libretto for "Songs of Rebirth," a song cycle by Lera Auerbach, published by Sikorski Musikverlage.
He has lectured about music and film at venues including NYU's Deutsches Haus, Hofstra University, the Wagner Society of NY, and Boston Public Library. In autumn 2011, he taught a course in Romanticism and Film at Barnard College. He has also taught video production classes at Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. He has a B.F.A. with honors (Film & TV) and M.F.A. (Musical Theatre Writing) from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. An experienced violinist and conductor, he studied orchestral conducting at Mannes College of Music and the Aspen Music School.
Hilan lives in New York City with his wife, Katya Stanislavskaya, a musical theater writer and musical director.