ABOUT US

Master Communications was founded in 1994 with the goal of providing superior educational products and services for children around the world. We promote cultural understanding by creating and distributing books, audio, video, crafts, greeting cards, dolls that are multicultural and multilingual.

Master Communications holds the world-wide broadcasting and video rights to the highly acclaimed Families of the World series which is great for fostering understanding of cultures of many countries around the world.

Families of the World series was created by Mark and Georgi Marquisee, who are busy planning and producing more Families of the World.

To inquire about broadcasting rights, digital rights or licensing rights, please e-mail your inquiry to sales(at)master-comm.com.

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PRODUCERS at Arden Media

Eleanor "Georgi" Marquisee - Georgi has produced and supervised hundreds of award-winning programs. (see attached list). She is currently producing, "Families of the World", a highly acclaimed series of half-hour educational programs for children on family life in other countries. Active in the business community, Georgi served on the Federal Reserve Bank's Small Business and Agricultural Advisory Board and Delaware Council for International Visitors, was a founding board member of People to People International Delaware, Delaware Women's Television Project and Wilmington's Urban Environmental Center. Before joining Arden, she taught art to grades 1-12, did art therapy at a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children, and served as a Justice of the Peace/Magistrate for the State of Delaware. Georgi obtained her BA in art from College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota, and an MS in psychiatric art therapy from Hahnemann Medical College (now Hahnemann University), now Allegheny University. She has been a featured alumni of both schools and her work is in the permanent collection of the College. Georgi and Mark have been married more than 25 years and have a son, Evan, an artist and writer.

Mark Marquisee - Founder and Principal Mark started Arden Media Resources nearly 30 years ago with a portion of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Medicine that was presented to his doctoral advisor, Dr. Robert Holly, which Dr. Holly shared with the co-authors of his study. In addition to on-going corporate and non-profit work, Mark's cinematography and videography have covered a wide variety of subjects. "The History of the Swiss Army Knife", a humorous satire on arms escalation that Mark produced with an "Established Artist Grant" from the Delaware State Arts Council, won 6 major international awards. He produces an on-going series of shorts featuring artists and their work called RAVE, Regional Artists' Video Exchange. For over 20 years he has shot and produced segments for Sesame street, one of the best-known and loved children's programs in the world, and he is primary videographer for an on-going series, "Families of the World", highly acclaimed programs for children on family life in other countries. Mark obtained a BF degree at New York State College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse and a BS in biochemistry from Syracuse University. He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University and worked as a research biochemist in Central Research for the DuPont Company for 11 years before he and a partner started Arden Films, Inc. in 1968. Mark and his wife, Georgi, live in Wilmington, Delaware and have a son, Evan, who is an artist and writer.


 

Families of the World films are excellent for learning about people and culture around the world. Families of the World is recommended for social studies classrooms, world geography classrooms, ELL/ESL classrooms, foreign language classrooms and home schoolers. Excellent for school library and public library collection. Watch all 23 Families of the World episodes: Families of Australia, Families of Brazil, Families of Canada, Families of China, Families of Costa Rica, Families of Egypt, Families of France, Families of Ghana, Families of Guatemala, Families of India, Families of Israel, Families of Japan, Families of Korea, Families of Mexico, More Families of Mexico, Families of Panama, Families of Puerto Rico, Families of Russia, Families of Sweden, Families of Thailand, Families of UK, Families of USA, Families of Vietnam .
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