Northern Light Productions

Northern Light Productions is a documentary film and museum media production company based in Boston, MA. Founded in 1982 by independent filmmaker Bestor Cram, the company is one of New England's premiere production organizations, creating a variety of work for museums, visitor centers, educational institutions, and television broadcast worldwide.

Northern Light Productions was founded in 1982 when Bestor Cram, himself a Vietnam Veteran, produced How Far Home, a documentary film about the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. In 2001 another landmark film about the Vietnam War, co-produced by Northern Light Productions and titled Unfinished Symphony, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film went on to screen extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Unfinished Symphony, divided into three sections and mirroring the movements of Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3, focuses on a 1971 three-day protest in Lexington, MA staged by newly returned war veterans.

Over the years, Northern Light Productions has had films in The Sundance Film Festival, The Boston Film Festival, The Austin Film Festival,Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and others.

Birth of a Movement: The Battle Against America's First Blockbuster will air on PBS's Independent Lens on February 6, 2017. It will premiere in Boston at the Somerville Theater and in New York at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library.

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