Frederic Lumiere is a renowned producer, director, editor, and published author, as well as the President of Lumiere Media, Inc., a film and television production company based in Doylestown, PA.
His feature film directing debut, Tomorrow is Today (2006),won 13 awards, including a Director's Discovery Award from the Rhode Island International Film Festival, and was later picked up by Cinemax.
Frederic then directed and edited four documentaries for various television networks, including The Knights of Columbus (2008),Father McGivney (2008),70's Fever: The Me Generation (2009),and The Secrets of Fatima (2009).
He was then approached by History to create a new concept on WWII, resulting in the Emmy Award-winning series WWII in HD (2009),narrated by Gary Sinise, which received widespread critical acclaim.
In 2011, Frederic executive produced and edited The Wereth Eleven (2011),a film that retraced the steps of eleven black GI's whose murder by the SS during the Battle of the Bulge was never prosecuted, and received a nomination from the Hollywood Post Alliance for Outstanding Editing for Television.
He then directed and edited Normandy's 100 Days (2013),a unique film experience projected on 9 screens in a 360-degree theater, and Raw War: The Lost Film of Dak To (2014),a Vietnam War special that rated as the best original premiere in the network's history.
In June 2014, Frederic's new film Sacrifice (TF1, National Geographic) premiered globally in 171 countries and 45 languages to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of D-Day, and rated as the #1 television show on French television in primetime and #3 documentary in the world.
Frederic also co-authored the best-selling book "Sacrifice" based on the film, published by Acropole.
He is a member of the Director's Guild of America.
