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AMGMedia Publishers is a content creation services and
publishing company for the film and video production industries. We produce and publish the Goodman's Guide
series of field guides. AMGMedia also develops books, CDs, DVDs, and web-based content for education,
marketing, public relations, and training.
Robert M. Goodman is an Emmy-nominated director and
award-winning independent producer with credits in commercial, corporate, and feature production. He's the
author of Goodman's Guide series, the first field guides for SD and HD cameras to be written for
cinematographers, videographers, and independent filmmakers.
Goodman is the co-author of Editing Digital Video, a best-selling book about how to tell stories
using any digital editing system, published by McGraw-Hill in 2002. He also wrote the camera and lens chapters
for The American Society of Cinematographers' Video Manual, 3rd edition and is one of the authors of
The Guide to Digital Television, 1st, 2nd, 3rd editions. Goodman evaluated digital technology for
production and post as a contributing editor for Broadcast Television,
The Independent Film & Video Monthly, and Videography for nearly a decade. He holds the
distinct honor of having written the most popular series of articles in Videography's 25 year history
and is currently writing for DV magazine.
Stone Reader, the nonfiction feature he produced, was a 2002 International Documentary Association
Award nominee for Distinguished Achievement in the Feature category, the association's highest honor, and a
2003 Indie Spirit Award nominated film. The film was released theatrically in 2003 and appeared on Roger Ebert,
Andrew Sarris, John Anderson, and other critics, list of the top-ten films in 2003. Stone Reader won a
Special Grand Jury Honor and the Audience Award for Best Feature (a first for a nonfiction film) at the Slamdance Film
Festival in 2002. This film was one of only two contemporary films selected for the 2003 edition of Roger
Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival.
Goodman has conducted workshops on digital production and post for AIVF, Guild of Professional Photographers,
IFP, ITVA, SMPTE, Sony Corporation, Women in Film, and at film festivals in Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Minneapolis,
New York, Philadelphia, Portland, San Diego, and San Francisco. He began his career as a still photographer.
Angelo M. Grotticelli has over 15 years experience
covering developments in the film and television industries and has served as an editor for publications, such
as, Videography (Managing Editor), TV Technology (News editor), Television Broadcast
(Editor), Digital TV (Editor), Broadcasting & Cable (Technology Editor) and is one of the
authors of The Guide to Digital Television, 1st, 2nd, 3rd editions. He currently is Online Editor for
Broadcast Engineering magazine and is a frequent contributor to the print magazine. Grotticelli also
compiled and edited the 3rd edition of the American Cinematographer Video Manual, for the American
Society of Cinematographers (ASC). He is the publisher of the Goodman's Guide series.
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