Carey Ann Strelecki began her 19-year documentary film career at PBS working with award-winning Cosmos producer Greg Andorfer on the series Space Age. A co-production of WQED, Pittsburgh and NHK, Japan the series offered her first taste of international collaboration. It was a morsel that proved addictive; Carey found herself working in the years to come on many international projects.
Strelecki’s producing, directing and writing credits include the Emmy-award-winning PBS science series, Future Quest and the Cable ACE-nominated anthropology series What a World for TLC. She went on to work with every major broadcast network and many of the non-fiction based cable channels, including Discovery, History Channel and National Geographic.
Most recently, she wrote for the PBS series World on a String. which explored the role beads play in society and the impact they have on the lives of individuals around the world. The series, produced by world-renowned filmmakers Diana and Lionel Friedberg, garnished several honors including Cine Golden Eagle and Chris Awards.
In the realm of feature documentary film, in 2006, she co-produced I Have Never Forgotten You: the Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal with Academy-Award winning producer / director Richard Trank. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, played at Tribeca and won the Audience Award at Cinevegas 2007.
Carey’s passion for research originally compelled her to enter into the captivating universe of documentary television and film. Today, she continues to consult on the research of feature films and commercials. In 2006, she was the Senior Research Consultant on the Academy Award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth and prior to that on the internationally acclaimed September 11th documentary, 11.09.01 with the Academy Award-winning director, Alejandro Inarritu (Babel, 21 Grams, Amores Perros).
In the print realm, Strelecki was the US Correspondent to COLORS Magazine for 3 years, a freelance writer for The Desert Sun and has written teaching materials and web sites for McGraw-Hill. In 2003, a profound love of food lead her to co-author a book with Kathy Lynn Siegel entitled Veg Out: A Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants in Southern California, published by Smith-Gibbs. Stilll a big fan of eating, she continues to develop food projects for television
and the web through multiple outlets.
An advocate for volunteerism and international aid projects, Carey won the National Philanthropy Award in 2005 for her work rebuilding the library for the Dubnoff Center for Child Development. In 2004, her proposal to improve the lives and education of Nepali girl children was taken to the Director General of the United Nations by international NGO, Population Communications, International. It was later utilized in part by a project funded by the BBC and British Government.
