Ann Zane Shanks

A successful female executive makes the transition from big business to becoming housewife and mom.

Playboy Video Magazine was literally a video version of the publication. It included candid celebrity interviews, video editorials, the trademark playmate pictorials, interwoven with commercial parodies and short comedy sketches. The series also covered trends in media; sex, politics, culture, and pop culture.

Six former sorority sisters are suspected of murder when a baby's skeleton is found in the ruins of the sorority house.

Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-qualified. His wife, Annabelle, with no experience, is hired by the Freddie Fox agency when she uses her husband's résumé to get the job. He remains at home, raising their three children, coaxing his wife while trying to write the "great American novel."

Successful advertising executive decides to get out of the rat race but the family rebels at the new lifestyle he outlines. He and his youngest daughter leave the suburbs for a Manhattan loft apartment while the rest of the brood -- wife and three kids -- re-evaluate the situation. For his engaging score, Peter Matz won an Emmy Award nomination.

A PBS documentary created in collaboration with the celebrated art exhibit of the same name organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

A successful female executive makes the transition from big business to becoming housewife and mom.

Playboy Video Magazine was literally a video version of the publication. It included candid celebrity interviews, video editorials, the trademark playmate pictorials, interwoven with commercial parodies and short comedy sketches. The series also covered trends in media; sex, politics, culture, and pop culture.

Six former sorority sisters are suspected of murder when a baby's skeleton is found in the ruins of the sorority house.

Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-qualified. His wife, Annabelle, with no experience, is hired by the Freddie Fox agency when she uses her husband's résumé to get the job. He remains at home, raising their three children, coaxing his wife while trying to write the "great American novel."

Successful advertising executive decides to get out of the rat race but the family rebels at the new lifestyle he outlines. He and his youngest daughter leave the suburbs for a Manhattan loft apartment while the rest of the brood -- wife and three kids -- re-evaluate the situation. For his engaging score, Peter Matz won an Emmy Award nomination.

A PBS documentary created in collaboration with the celebrated art exhibit of the same name organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Ann Zane Shanks first film is a short, impressionistic look at Central Park, viewed from the Shanks' apartment at 135 Central Park West. It was purchased by Columbia Pictures in 1970 and played at Radio City Music Hall.