Gerald Seth Sindell
Gerald Seth Sindell is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, author, columnist, sound recording engineer, audio mixer and latterly a management consultant. In the 1960s and 1970s he
| Gerald Seth Sindell | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 15, 1944 Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| 💼 Occupation | Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Writer, Publisher, Management Consultant |
| Known for | Movies, Books, Publishing, Consultancy |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Sharon Shubert (married 1964-1980)
Kimberley Cameron (married 1983-1991) Leanne Kallström (married 2001- present) |
| 👶 Children | Joshua Sindell
Milo Sindell David Sindell Maxwell Sindell |
| 🌐 Website | www.linkedin.com/in/geraldsindell |
focused on film directing, shifting to authoring and publishing from the 1980s onwards.
He was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and has lived in Los Angeles, Aspen, New York, London, the south of France, and currently lives in Napa, California.
Early Years
Gerald Seth Sindell was born in 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio to David and Grace Sindell (née Tabakin), one of three siblings. He began his education at Shaker Heights High School, where he became president of the city-wide Cleveland Youth Council on Human Relations[1] a large and effective organization to promote interracial understanding – a spinoff from the National Council of Christians and Jews, now known as the National Conference for Community and Justice. From 1957-1962 he spent summers at the Interlochen Center for the Arts studying organ, flute, counterpoint, directing and conducting. Then, in 1962, he began studies of English and Music at New York University, completing studies in pre-med and pre-law at Ohio State University in 1965.
As a teenager he worked weekends at his father’s law firm in the photo studio and lab, becoming expert in the studio's Speed Graphic, Voightlander, and Leica still cameras, and Bell & Howell 16mm film camera, as well as developing and printing pictures that would be used as evidence in court.
Career
Film
As Gerald Seth Sindell his first feature motion picture, Double-Stop (1968), produced by his brother Roger Ivan Sindell, was an American nomination to the Cannes Film Festival and won the Silver Phoenix at the Atlanta International Film Festival for 'World's Best Feature Motion Picture.' It starred Jeremiah Sullivan, Mimi Torchin and Anthony Walsh.
Sindell’s second movie in 1971 was Harpy[2] a story based around the rare harpy eagle which he produced and directed for CBS Cinema Center, starring Elizabeth Ashley and Hugh O’Brian and featuring a rare and huge harpy eagle, (played by four harpy eagles). Kevin Thomas, reviewing Harpy in the Los Angeles Times, wrote, "Harpy is that rare film in which every element is precisely integrated. It is a triumph of style.”[3].
In 1974 his third film, originally titled The Real Thing and subsequently re-titled, Teenager, starred Andrea Cagan, Reid Smith, Sue Bernard and Joe Warfield. It was written, produced, directed and edited by Sindell, and was rediscovered in a podcast (January, 2022). In 1979 Sindell stepped in when the original director was let go from the movie H.O.T.S. and directed most of the principal photography and earned sole directing credit. A full cast list and credits can be found here. In 1981 Sindell was co-producer on the film Reborn, starring Dennis Hopper and directed by Bigas Luna.
In 1997 he was a credited co-writer on the Rutger Hauer movie Hemoglobin (originally titled Bleeders) alongside Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett – writers of the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien.
Books
Using the name Gerald Sindell he created and edited Dear, Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus.[4] (published by Wm Morrow & Co, 1986). He then authored The Genius Machine: The Eleven Steps That Turn Raw Ideas into Brilliance[5] (New World Library, 2009), the novel, Elinor and Shakespeare[6] (Knightsbridge, 2018), and How Architecture Tells: 9 Realities that will Change the Way You See[7] with author Robert Sternberg, FAIA, and Foreword by the Hon. Penny Pritzker (Oro Editions, 2021.)
Publishing
In 1983, Sindell was introduced to …and Ladies of the Club[8] by Helen Hooven Santmyer and decided, along with Owen Laster[9], to republish and promote it in the US. The media coverage of the book began with a front-page story on the New York Times[10] and it spent 52 weeks on their best sellers’ list. By 1987, Sindell had founded the book publishing companies Tudor Publishing and Knightsbridge Publishing Co, which, amongst others, published; The Rape of Kuwait[11][12] by Jean P. Sasson, a book influential in bringing the USA into the Gulf War[13]; Is Elvis Alive?[14] by Gail Brewer-Giorgio, responsible for the Elvis sightings craze of 1988[15], and many other American authors, including Ralph Nader, and Vincent Bugliosi.
As a publishing consultant he went on to found Thought Leaders International[16], an organization to help create and develop the intellectual property of authors. Through this Sindell has developed and guided the work of authors and institutions, including Jeffrey J Fox[17], Maddy Dychtwald, Zach Dychtwald[18], Larry Ackerman[19], Yahoo![20], The Balanced Scorecard Institute[21], Gino Wickman[22], Jim Taylor and Anat Baniel[23]. In 2001, Sindell appeared on C-Span Book TV's panel broadcast, Book Doctors and Bestsellers[24].
In 1996, Sindell with partner 'Malibu' Kelly Hayes, created and wrote the weekly ski newsletter, The Skier's Edge, distributed by fax from Aspen, Colorado[25].
As a classical music blogger, Sindell writes a series of humorous pieces intended to introduce the pleasures of classical music to young parents and their children. His articles appear on the blog titled, How to Enjoy Classical Music With Your Dog[26].
Management Consulting
As an inventor, Sindell created a global, universal, hierarchical authentication system (patent pending) which has been presented at all the major security forums, including the Financial Services Roundtable (a lobbying organization now the Bank Policy Institute) whose members include all of America's major financial institutions. Also, as inventor, Sindell created, for Accenture Consulting, the first real-time 3D interactive system dynamics model for very large scale implementation management, and presented his system by invitation to most of the IT leaders in the US government at a forum held for that purpose at the National Defense University. Sindell is currently active, as a Partner, in the Identity Dynamics Institute[27], which has developed the first complete universal business dynamics model of the large scale enterprise[28]
Filmography
- 1968 Double-Stop – Writer and director
- 1971 Harpy – Producer and director
- 1974 Teenager (aka The Real Thing) – Writer, producer, director
- 1979 H.O.T.S. – Director
- 1981 Reborn – Editor and co-producer
- 1997 Hemoglobin (aka Bleeders) – Producer and co-writer
Published Work
Dear, Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus William Morrow & Co; 1st edition (1 Jan. 1986) ISBN 0688028160
The Genius Machine: The Eleven Steps That Turn Raw Ideas into Brilliance New World Library (1 Jun. 2009) ISBN 1577316509
Elinor and Shakespeare Knightsbridge Publishing (18 Jun. 2018) ISBN 1561290114
How Architecture Tells: 9 Realities that will Change the Way You See ORO Editions (7 Jan. 2022) ISBN 1954081316
References
- ↑ "Finding aid for the Council on Human Relations Photographs". ead.ohiolink.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Los Angeles Times | Double-Stop The Motion Picture". Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ Thomas, Kevin (June 16, 1985). "MOVIES OF THE WEEK". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ↑ Miller, Henry (1986). Dear, dear Brenda : the love letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus. Brenda Venus, Gerald Seth Sindell (1st ed.). New York: W. Morrow. ISBN 0-688-02816-0. OCLC 12342260. Search this book on
- ↑ Sindell, Gerald Seth (2009). The genius machine : the 11 steps that turn raw ideas into brilliance. Novato, Calif.: New World Library. ISBN 978-1-57731-849-1. OCLC 776613004. Search this book on
- ↑ Sindell, Gerald Seth (2018). Elinor & Shakespeare. Napa, CA. ISBN 978-1-56129-011-6. OCLC 1267477136. Search this book on
- ↑ STEINBERG, ROBERT (2021). HOW ARCHITECTURE TELLS : 9 realities that will change the way you see. [S.l.]: ORO EDITIONS. ISBN 1-954081-31-6. OCLC 1250383053. Search this book on
- ↑ Santmyer, Helen Hooven (2000). "---and ladies of the club" (Berkley trade pbk. ed.). New York: Berkley Books. ISBN 0-425-17440-9. OCLC 44417858. Search this book on
- ↑ Grimes, William (2011-03-10). "Owen Laster, Literary Agent at William Morris, Dies at 72". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ McDowell, Edwin (1984-01-12). "HAPPY END FOR NOVELIST'S 50-YEAR EFFORT". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ Sasson, Jean P. (1991). The rape of Kuwait : the true story of Iraqi atrocities against a civilian population ([Expanded ed.] ed.). New York: Knightsbridge Pub. Co. ISBN 1-56129-207-9. OCLC 22994464. Search this book on
- ↑ McDowell, Edwin (1991-01-09). "Book Notes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ Lee, Gary (Jan 17, 1991). "Rape of Kuwait Book, Ad Campaign Try To Make A Case For Military Force". The Washington Post. Retrieved Jan 26, 2022.
- ↑ Brewer-Giorgio, Gail (1988). Is Elvis alive?. New York: Tudor Pub. ISBN 0-944276-31-8. OCLC 18276927. Search this book on
- ↑ "Gemtracks - Buy Beats Online | Rap and Trap Instrumentals For Sale". Gemtracks.com. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Thought Leaders Intl | Gerald Sindell is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of breakthrough thinking". Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Fox&Company". foxandcompany.com. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ Dychtwald, Zak. "Home". Zak Dychtwald. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Main". Larry Ackerman. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ Barr, Chris (2010). The Yahoo! style guide : the ultimate sourcebook for writing, editing, and creating content for the digital world. Yahoo! Inc. London: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-74960-3. OCLC 620092754. Search this book on
- ↑ Institute, Balanced Scorecard. "Home". Balanced Scorecard Institute. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Home". Gino Wickman. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ Baniel, Anat (2019-04-25). "Home". Anat Baniel Method NeuroMovement. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Gerald Sindell | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Council on Human Relations Photographs". Western Reserve Historical Society. PG405. 1955 – via OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository.
- ↑ "An Invitation". How to Enjoy Classical Music With Your Dog. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Home of Identity Dynamics Institute". Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ Reiss, Robert. "Interview With Larry Ackerman, Founder And Partner Of Identity Dynamics Institute". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
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