Judith Vecchione

Executive Producer at WGBH

Judith Vecchione has contributed to many major documentary series. She won an Emmy and a Red Ribbon at the American Film Festival for her work on Vietnam, and was Series Senior Producer and Producer of the first two programs of the critically acclaimed documentary series Eyes on the Prize. She has been Executive Producer for a number of award-winning national PBS documentary series. She was also WGBH's Executive Producer for Martin Scorsese's multi-platform series, The Blues. Her programs have won awards from American Women in Radio and Television, the Chicago Film Festival, the Columbus International Film and Video Festival, the USrrr International Film and Video Festival, as well as the George Foster Peabody Award, three Christopher Awards and four CINE Golden Eagles, among others. In addition to her programming responsibilities, Vecchione is Executive Director for the Producers Workshops at WGBH, an initiative of CPB and PBS that has trained more than 150 national and regional producers, from public broadcasting stations and from the independent community, over the past eight years.