Ted Hardin

Ted Hardin is an Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago. He is a filmmaker and director of photography whose work has been featured on the BBC and New York Times sites. Ted has worked for German television and was awarded a Fulbright to study German film history. He worked at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, and owns a production company with Elizabeth Coffman.  Their last documentary, ‘Flannery,’ on the southern writer Flannery O’Connor received funding from the NEH, won the first Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film and was broadcast on PBS American Masters. They are finishing two documentaries “Venice is Thinking,” about the efforts to save Venice, Italy from the effects of climate change, and “A Gathering of Strangers—the Making of the Merchant in Venice” about the first ever staging of Shakespeare’s play in the earliest known Jewish Ghetto.