Riverside Films was founded by award-winning filmmaker Joseph Dorman whose work has appeared on PBS, CBS, Discovery Channel and CNN. He was senior producer for the prime time PBS newsmagazine series on the news media, Media Matters.

In addition to his award-winning theatrical feature Arguing the World, Mr. Dorman wrote the feature documentaries Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry and The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Journey, which was named the best documentary of 2001 by the National Board of Review.

His book, Arguing the World, The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words, based on his film was published by the Free Press in the fall of 2000 and was named one of the distinguished Jewish books of 2000.

Mr. Dorman is a winner of television’s prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. He has also twice been nominated for Emmy Awards for outstanding cultural and public affairs programming.

In 1999 Mr. Dorman was invited to give Harvard University’s annual William E. Massey Sr. Lecture in the history of American Civilization.