Who We Are

Tom Seligson
Founder and President

Tseligson@StrategicFilmWorks.com

Tom Seligson is an award-winning producer, author and journalist. For his work in television, he has won three Emmy Awards and has been nominated seven times.

Seligson spent ten years as an Executive Producer at CBS News Productions. There he supervised the production of more than 200 hours of programming for A&E, The History Channel, Discovery, Discovery Health, TLC, Showtime, MTV and other cable channels.

He won Emmy Awards for “Inside Flight 93,” “What’s So Funny About New York?” and “The Google Boys.” He won Emmy nominations for “Crime Beat,” “Faces of Kosovo,” “The 9/11 Commission Report” and “Tsunami: Waves of Death.”  The Tsunami show also won a New York Festival Gold World Medal Award and a Cine Golden Eagle Award. His show “Betrayal: The Battle of Warsaw” won a Cine Golden Eagle Award as well as First Prize in the Houston World Film Festival.

In addition to his documentary work, Tom has extensive experience in news and talk show programming. He was a producer at “Day and Date,” for CBS, “Everyday with Joan Lunden,” and “Now It Can Be Told,” with Geraldo Rivera.

As a print journalist, Tom has contributed to numerous publications including Parade (to which he was a contributing editor for over a decade),  The New York Times, The Village Voice, Glamour,  Self, Mademoiselle, Redbook, American Health and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.

Seligson’s books include The High School Revolutionaries, To Be Young in Babylon, Stalking, Doubles and Kidd. Kidd was optioned by Henry Winkler, Ron Howard and the Executive Producers of the Batman series, before being sold to Walt Disney Studios for National Treasure and National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

Susan Farewell
Creative Director

SFarewell@FarewellTravels.com

Susan Farewell is a widely known digital, print and broadcast journalist. She is also the editor-in-chief of FarewellTravels: Select Escapes, a travel news and information site.

A former travel editor and staff writer at The Condé Nast Publications in New York City, her work has appeared in numerous publications (and sibling websites) including  Travel and Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Vogue, Gourmet, Cooking Light, Outside, Metropolitan Home, Child and Bride’s. She also writes for newspapers such as The New York Times and The New York Post, newsletters (BottomLine Personal) and numerous in-flight and regional magazines as well as various websites.

In addition to writing, Farewell has also developed countless products both in digital and traditional media, from travel guides to online magazines.

She is the  author of several books including  How to Make a Living as a Travel Writer, Hidden New England and Quick Escapes from New York City  (the latter two have had multiple editions). She has also co-authored many books.

Tim McGarvey
3D Animator

Tim McGarvey is one of the most highly regarded 3D animation artists in the business. As a pioneer in the use of computer graphics, Tim developed the process that takes the cinematic Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) style used in big Hollywood feature films and makes it both accessible and affordable for smaller budget film, television, and website productions.

Tim’s stunning award-winning animations have been featured in programs for NBC Dateline, A&E, Court TV, The History Channel, The Learning Channel and The Weather Channel. His unflagging attention to detail has proven especially invaluable in scientific programming, such as Discovery Channel’s recent hit, “EARTH: The Sequel.”

Tim’s lifelike—though scrupulously accurate–animations have been used by major corporations to demonstrate products in development. Hoffman La Roche Pharmaceutical used Tim’s work in their video presentation to the FDA for a drug approval. When the Steris Corporation, a billion dollar company servicing the defense, aerospace, medical and manufacturing industries, wanted to demonstrate their new decontamination process, they relied on Tim’s animation and production skills.

Bob Melisso
West Coast Director/Producer

Bob Melisso is a highly respected writer/director/producer. His work has appeared on History, Discovery, PBS, CNN and CBS, among other channels. For The History Channel, he directed and produced episodes of the Universe series, now in its third season.

He has produced for “Stuff Happens”,  a science show hosted by Bill Nye on Discovery’s new channel, Planet Green. For PBS, he produced for the program “Wired Science” and is consulting on a pending science education website. He also helped start up the CBS series “How’d They Do That?” His current work includes a pilot on meteorites for the Science Channel.

As a producer and writer, Bob is known for making science and technical subjects easy to comprehend. As a director, he has worked with some of the top scientists in their fields to help make their work more accessible to the public. Some of his programs are used to help teach science concepts to university students.

Charles Gelber
Contributing Editor and Director

(Photo forthcoming)

Charles Gelber is an award-winning editor and director with more than thirty years experience in television and video production. As the owner of Gelber Television, he has contributed his distinctive look and feel to shows ranging from HBO specials and cooking infomercials to specials of “Sesame Workshop.”

Among the many shows Charles has worked on are the HBO documentaries “Baghdad ER” and “Kirk and Michael Douglas: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” He edited 52 episodes of “Intimate Portraits” for Lifetime.  He was the online editor for 26 episodes of the HBO series “A Little Curious.” He was also online editor for PBS’s “Sidney Poitier, American Masters” and “Lena Home: In Her Own Voice American Masters.”

As a director, Charles’ credits include “The Royal Soap Opera,” a syndicated two-hour special. He has done work for ABC Sports. He also directed “Catalog 1,” for Time Warner Interactive Cable, and “The Great Cooking Challenge,” an infomercial for Saatchi & Saatchi.