Programs that Mr. Wetherell produced and directed have earned over 50 awards in competitions and film festivals, including an Emmy, 9 CINE Golden Eagles, the CINE Golden Eagle Master Series Award, the 25th Anniversary Golden Telly Award, a Gold Medal at the New York Festivals, American Film & Video Festival Blue and Red Ribbons, ITVA Golden, Silver, and Bronze Reels, and awards from the Chicago Film Festival.
“Troubled Waters,” an independent documentary about a fisherman forced to give up his livelihood, was broadcast on WNET/PBS, earned a CINE Golden Eagle, a Blue Ribbon at the American Film & Video Festival, and was selected for screening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Anthropos – The Barbara Myerhoff Film Festival.  Another independent documentary, “Four Days Under Liberty,” a show about Airstream travel trailers and their owners was broadcast on WNET.  In 2001, Mr. Wetherell and Lisa Gossels received the Emmy Award for the”The Children of Chabannes,” a feature-length documentary about the rescue of 400 Jewish children in France during World War II (Broadcast on HBO).
A background in feature and television documentary editing prepared Mr. Wetherell for a type of filmmaking that often relies on working with real people, and getting them to loosen up and work with the camera.
As president of Wetherell & Associates, Inc., established in 1986, Dean Wetherell has created hundreds of film and video projects, including independent documentaries as well as corporate image, public relations, and training films. His clients include Verizon, AT&T, NYNEX, Robinson Lake Sawyer Miller Group, New York Life Insurance Company, Johnson & Higgins, and Merrill Lynch.
Mr. Wetherell’s early work in television includes documentary editing and camerawork for PBS, HBO, ABC, and Time-Life Films. Mr. Wetherell was the Associate Picture Editor for the 1987 Academy Award winning feature documentary, “Down and Out in America,” directed by Lee Grant for HBO. Other credits include “The Brain” and “The Challenge of the Unknown,” both science series for PBS; “P.T. Barnum and His Human Oddities” and “America Undercover” for HBO, “Sex in America” for CBS; “20/20″ segments for ABC; and “Square One” for Children’s Television Workshop.
Feature and commercial television sound editing credits include “Heaven” (directed by Diane Keaton), “Eleni” (directed by Peter Yates), “Eugene O’Neil” starring Matthew Modine for American Playhouse,” “In the Heat of the Night” (the TV series), the “Kennedy” mini-series, “Creepshow,” written by Stephen King and directed by George Romero for Warner Brothers. Picture editing credits include many real people spots for clients like H&R Block, Kodak, Chef Boyardee, and Eastern Airlines,” produced by Maysles Films, Inc.
