Over the last 28 years, Ms. Schwartz has become one of the film industry’s most respected and accomplished film producers. Her unique creative vision and strong abilities to develop and execute complex entertainment projects are highly regarded throughout the film community. She is also one of the first women to be admitted into the Directors Guild of America. Since 2000, Schwartz has been responsible for Songmasters’ filmed and (non-concert) televised components.
Schwartz has developed and produced award-winning hit movies for many of the industry’s top stars, directors, and writers. She began her film career in the early 1970’s with renowned independent filmmaker, Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. Her work with New World culminated in the critically acclaimed “Capone” and “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.” Just a few of her many feature film credits include the Golden Globe Nominated/People’s Choice Award Winner Sister Act starring Whoopi Goldberg; the Golden Globe Nominated Nuts starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss; Crackers starring Sean Penn and directed by Louis Malle; Joe vs. the Volcano starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and Beaches starring Bette Midler, to name a few.
Schwartz was also a pioneer producer at the dawn of computer-generated animation combined with live action. She put her considerable skills in this area to the test by producing countless numbers of high-end national corporate commercials, for which she won four CLIO Awards along with numerous New York and Chicago Advertising Club Awards.
Schwartz launched her own music video company at the inception of MTV/VH1 in the early 1980’s. As its President, she built one of the most highly regarded and sought-after music video production houses of its time, developing and producing many music videos that went to #1 in the country and which earned MTV and New York Film Festival Awards. Some of the artists with which she worked during this period include Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Roger Daltrey, Cyndi Lauper, The Bangles, Rod Stewart, Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello, and Christine McVie. Having had her own production company for many years, Schwartz formed a partnership with Goldie Hawn to create Cherry Alley Productions in 1995 and served as President from 1995-2000. Along with Ms. Hawn, Schwartz built a unique company specializing in high end, entertaining feature films and event television films. Their diverse slate of projects has included Hope directed by Goldie Hawn for TNT and seen by 28,000,000 people; The Out-of-Towners for Paramount Pictures starring Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin; and many other distinguished projects that they developed for film and television.
Most recently, Schwartz was appointed by Loyola Marymount University as the founding Dean of its School of Film and Television in Los Angeles.
