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George M. Herzfeld is a truly INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN. Born in Vienna, Austria he spent his youth in Sweden where he graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology in Electronic Engineering. After serving three years in the Swedish Army he left Service as an Officer and moved to the USA were he continued his studies at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) specializing in Computer Technology. His professional career covers many parts of the world representing American Companies in various Management Positions in the USA, England, Holland, and in Switzerland. He started IDA International Data Automation, a worldwide Marketing and Production Company for Computer Equipment in 1978. George's life took another dimension when he married Marina Goldovskaya in 1991. In addition to continuing IDA he added another goal to his list: To help Marina produce and distribute her Documentaries in the "Western World". Thus GOLDFILMS was born as a Division of International Data Automation. George happily admits that being a Producer for Marina is very special. Handle all financial and legal questions and provide the technical expertise to keep the cameras and postproduction equipment running. The rest is all Marina Goldovskaya. George has two daughters, Jill and Elizabeth, from a prior marriage. He and Marina maintain their main home in Los Angeles, were they have the pleasure of often seeing their four grandchildren Phoebe, Noah, Milo and Lev. Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers with a strong international reputation. She has made 32 documentary films and more than 100 TV programs for Russian, Austrian, French, German and American Television. During her long career as Director, Producer, Cinematographer and Writer, she has won virtually every prize there is to win in the area of documentary filmmaking. In the USA, Marina first got recognition for her feature legth documentary"Solovky Power" which was the first film revealing the horrors of the Soviet concentration camps. The film premiered in the USA at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989 where it received high appreciation of the audience and a special certificate of acknowledgement from the Jury. "Solovky Power" has a world wide theatrical distribution and received several prestigious professional awards. In 1990, she made "A Taste of Freedom" for Turner Television (TNT), giving the world the first glimpses of the effects of perestroika, started by Gorbachev, by relating the life of a Moscow journalist and his family. In “The House on Arbat Street”, which she made for Canal+ (France), through the destinies of the people who lived in one Moscow building, she told the story of Russia in the 20th century. This film had been aired on many European TV channels and in Canada, and received many international awards, such as the Best Film of the year Award at Prix Europe in 1994, The Ester Prize in Washington, DC, and the Grand Prix at the Film Festival in Monte Carlo. Marina was the first Russian filmmaker to introduce a personal diary style in the documentary genre to describe the social changes in Russia and how they affected the lives of the people.

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