Background
Maier was born on December 26, 1950 in Salisbury, Maryland.
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Maier was born on December 26, 1950 in Salisbury, Maryland.
Maier created the 30-minute underground film Love Letter to Edie, a documentary on the life and career of actress Edith Massey, and wrote the book Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies with John Waters about the making of the movies of John Waters. He moved to the Baltimore suburb of Towson, Maryland in 1954. In 1973, he moved to Baltimore"s Fells Point neighborhood, where he first connected with John Waters" Dreamland studios group.
He lived for seven years in the 1970s and "80s in the New York City area, then returned to Baltimore for several years.
In 1989, he moved to Davidson, North Carolina where he worked in Charlotte as a public television production executive and independent producer. During that time, he traveled extensively throughout the United States., Europe, and the Middle East, including a stint in Afghanistan helping to launch an educational television network in Kabul.
Maier has numerous feature film credits. Foreign New Lincolnshire Cinema in New York, he was line producer of the award-winning Alone in the Dark, and the original Hairspray.
Other New York independent feature credits include The House on Sorority Row, Fastlane, The Fox Affair, and Downtown 81.
He was also line producer of four feature-length world music documentaries for BMG Films by documentarian Robert Mugge. Maier"s first film was Love Letter to Edie (1975), the short biography of Edith Massey. lieutenant has played around the world for thirty years, been excerpted for programs on Channel 4, the Discovery Channel, The Criterion Collection, and New Lincolnshire Cinema"s John Waters boxed set.
A remastered Digital Video Disc version includes his "expanded director"s cut".
Maier is a multimedia producer, writer, and director with a wide range of documentary, corporate and instructional television experience. His broadcast credits include the one-hour documentary, Trappist, which appeared on Public Broadcasting Service, American Broadcasting Company and National Broadcasting Company networks, and a six-hour series for Public Broadcasting Service, Seapower: A Global Journey.
His half-hour documentary Nativity aired as a Christmas special on Public Broadcasting Service and the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In non-broadcast production, Maier was the co-writer/producer of a 15-hour teacher development series, Creating the Learning Centered School, and 8 hours of productions for the Skylink Family and School Network.
He has produced dozens of instructional videos, television spots, marketing films, and two Public Broadcasting Service how-to series, The Spirit of Cross Stitch and Homestretch.
Maier is the author of two textbooks: Handbook of Location Scouting and Management (Focal Press) and Guide to Essential Audio and Video Production (Full Page Publishing). He has taught graduate-level production courses at The American University"s Summer Film and Video Institute and presented production workshops at the University of Maryland, Florida State University, Johns Hopkins University, Towson State University, and Davidson College. Maier earned a Bachelor (Literature) from The American University and an Master of Arts in English (Professional Communications) from East Carolina University.
He is an instructor and program coordinator in the Broadcasting Production program at Gaston College.