Tom Weidlinger is an independent filmmaker who has been writing, directing and producing documentary films for 25 years. Weidlingers work includes programs on both historical and contemporary subjects. In the past decade, his work has focused on issues of social justice and grassroots democracy. Just prior to A Dream in Hanoi he completed Boys Will Be Men, a film about how boys grow up in American society and the emotional and social roadblocks they encounter along the way. Boys Will Be Men was aired nationally on public television stations for Fathers Day, 2001. In 1999, Weidlinger produced two segments for A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, a PBS series on the history of civil disobedience in the 20th century. Weidlinger was also the creator and executive producer of MAKING PEACE, a four-hour PBS series about grassroots activists who are "healing conditions that create violence." The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation funded a nationwide outreach effort to promote the use of MAKING PEACE in schools, churches, community centers, violence prevention organizations and public health agencies.

In 1984-1985, Weidlinger was senior producer (and director and writer of four programs) of the award-winning WEST OF THE IMAGINATION, a six-part television series about the history and mythology of the American West as portrayed by artists and photographers. Filmed in over 30 locations throughout the West, the episodes combine documentary material and dramatic recreations of the lives of artists and their historical contemporaries.

In 1987, he formed Moira Productions, an independent production company, for the purpose of developing and producing programs for public television. Moiras first production was The Great San Francisco Earthquake, which was selected to premiere the celebrated PBS anthology series THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Moiras second film, for the second season of the series, was The Great War, 1918, which contrasts the United States reasons for involvement in World War I with the recollections of veterans of that war.

In 1989-1990, he represented WGBH as senior producer of a French/American co-production (in association with the Paris newspaper Le Monde) DE GAULLE AND FRANCE. Weidlinger also wrote and directed one of the three programs in this series, focusing on the French-Algerian war.

In 1991-1993, he raised funding for and produced After the Velvet Revolution, a four-year television history project that chronicled the lives of a range of Czechs and Slovaks as they adapted to life in a new democracy after the fall of Communism in 1989.

In 1993-1994, Weidlinger was awarded a William Benton Fellowship in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Chicago. Weidlinger has received writing fellowships and residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, the Ossabaw Island Foundation and the McDowell Colony. He has written two feature film screenplays and been commissioned to write and develop numerous proposals and teleplays for public television.