Michael Shamberg

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Michael Shamberg (born March 22, 1944) is an American film producer and former Time–Life journalist. He produced films such as Erin Brockovich, A Fish Called Wanda, Garden State, Gattaca, Pulp Fiction, and The Big Chill. He runs Jersey Films with Stacey Sher and Danny DeVito, and he also co-founded Double Feature Films with Sher.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Shamberg helped push the counterculture’s use of new media. He co-founded Raindance Corporation in 1970, which published Radical Software and later became TVTV (Top Value Television). He and his first wife, Megan Williams, were founding members of TVTV. They believed that new technology could drive social change. A notable work was In Hiding: A Conversation with Abbie Hoffman, broadcast on WNET/13 in May 1975. He described his approach as "guerrilla television," a nonviolent way to challenge traditional television.

TVTV’s Lord of the Universe (1974) won a DuPont-Columbia Award in 1975. The group promoted using Sony Portapak cameras and blended documentary filmmaking with television, pioneering 3/4" video. Shamberg is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where he joined the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He is Jewish. He has three children and has been married to Megan Williams (1974–1991) and to Carla Santos Shamberg (from 1996).