Renner Wunderlich

Background

Renner Wunderlich was born in Street Louis Missouri, son of a Navy captain and an employee of National Geographic Society.

Education

Bachelor, Boston College, 1968.

Career

He has worked with homeless veterans, returning veterans from the Iran and Afghanistan wars, wounded veterans including those with post traumatic stress and substance abuse. In 1974 he co-founded with Margaret Lazarus the non-profit organization, Cambridge Documentary Films, and to date has produced and directed many films about social justice and women"s issues: Including films on rape, Rape is and Rape culture, films on body image and media culture, BirthMarkings, Killing Us Softly, and Still Killing Us Softly, and films on labor history, Eugene Debs and the American Movement. He worked for twenty years as a freelance editor, sound and cameraman for the majors networks, public television and educational institutions.

He is a private pilot who built and flew his own aircraft.

Achievements

• Renner Wunderlich has been listed as a noteworthy Film producer, director, editor by Marquis Who's Who.

Views

He and his partner, Margaret Lazarus, received an Academy Award in 1993 for their documentary Defending Our Lives, about battered women who were in prison for killing their abusers.

Membership

He worked at the Veterans Administration and United States Army Wounded Warrior Program, and was a member of the Massachusetts Governors Council on Veterans Affairs.

Personality

He is an independent licensed social worker with a specialty in the mental health needs of creative clients in the arts and those of veterans.

Interests

• Avocation: electric cars.

Connections

Married Margaret Lazarus. Children: Michael, Matthew.

Father:

Harry Joseph Wunderlich

Mother:

Erlynne Wunderlich

Spouse:

Margaret Lazarus

child:

Michael Wunderlich

child:

Matthew Wunderlich