Middlemarch Films, Inc. was founded in 1978 by Ellen Hovde (retired) and Muffle Meyer. Over the past twenty-plus years, Middlemarch Films has produced more than one hundred films and videos. These have been distributed nationally and internationally in theaters, on television, in the home video and educational markets. All of their major productions have opened to extremely favorable reviews in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, People, and many many more.
Hovde and Meyer have worked for and with numerous illustrious professionals including the Maysles Brothers, Lorne Michaels, Mike Nichols, Walter Cronkite, Penn and Teller, David Hockney and Twyla Tharp.
Middlemarch Films has been funded and supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the BBC, Morgan Guaranty Trust, Harvard University, Norwest Bank, McDonalds, Eastman Kodak, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Children's Television Workshop, The New York Bar Association, The Walter J. Annenberg Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trust, Group W-Westinghouse, ABC, CBS, TNT, WGBH, WNET and KTCA.
Their productions include documentaries, theatrical features, video series and children's films, for which they have won numerous awards: Emmys, Cine Gold Eagles, the Japan Prize, Christopher Awards, the Columbia-DuPont and the George Foster Peabody Awards. Their work has been selected for festivals in Japan, Greece, London, Edinburgh, Cannes, Toronto, Chicago and New York. They have received an Academy Award nomination and been twice honored by the Directors Guild of America.
