Executive Producer Walter Scheuer began his involvement in film in 1979 when he executive produced the Academy Award®-winning FROM MAO TO MOZART: ISAAC STERN IN CHINA. Since then, his major commitment to non-profit feature-length documentaries produced a number films including FIDDLEFEST (1995), released by Miramax Films as SMALL WONDERS (1995), HIGH FIDELITY (1988), NOVEMBER'S CHILDREN: REVOLUTION IN PRAGUE (1991), DANCEMAKER (1998), and MUSIC OF THE HEART (1999). Scheuers last project, THE TURANDOT PROJECT (2000), is a film about the Zhang Yimou production of Puccini's Turandot, conducted by Zubin Mehta. Scheuer also devotes a great deal of time as a member of the Board of Directors of Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, as well as other public and private foundations. Scheuer's brothers are movie historian and critic Steven H. Scheuer (b. 1926) and former New York Democratic congressman James H. Scheuer (1920 - 2005).  Nominated for Achievement in Documentary Features 1995: FIDDLEFEST: ROBERTA TZAVARAS AND HER EAST HARLEM VIOLIN PROGRAM - Producer (w. Allan Miller) 1 nomination