Prudence Fenton is an American film, television and music video producer. She won a
Grammy for producing and co-creating the music video for
Peter Gabriel's 1992 single "
Steam".
Overview
She began her career creating and animating MTV I.D.s, Pee-wee's Playhouse, and the animated
Peter Gabriel rock videos. At the turn of the century she was executive producer for ABC's One Saturday Morning, made up of branded cartoons and live-action bumpers. Fenton also co-created and directed and produced Fat Girl, an animated series of shorts that ran on the
Oxygen Media network's X-Chromosome show. She co-created and directed a series for urbanentertainment.com called Driving While Black.
She has won two
Emmy Awards for Pee-wee's Playhouse, where she was animation and special effects producer. In 1994, she won a
Grammy for producing and co-creating
Peter Gabriel's video, "Steam".[1] She also executive produced
Peter Gabriel's "
Big Time" video, which won
Billboard and MTV awards as well. She was executive Producer and Story Editor for the award winning MTV series Liquid Television and with this series brought Beavis and Butt-head to MTV. In 1988, Fenton produced a 20-minute film for
Amnesty International illustrating the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights using 35 animators from around the world. This film was part of the
Sting,
Bruce Springsteen,
Peter Gabriel Amnesty concert tour that went to many cities and seven continents. The film also won the
Lillian Gish award and Los Angeles animation festival award. Fenton has also won many
Clio awards for MTV program ids. She is the creator and executive producer of the web series Sub:3 on
Shut Up! Cartoons.
Producer
Sub:3 (2012) web series (creator, executive producer, writer)
Red Eye (2002) TV series (executive producer)
DIRT (Defiant Inthefaceof Rowdy Tyrants) Squirrel (2005) MTV (supervising producer)
Was producer of Treasure Planet 2 for five months of production. Hired crew, and managed executive approvals with weekly presentations. Storyboard reel completed through Act 1 when Studio shut down movie due to poor box office performance of Treasure Planet 1.
Was producer for the
Kodak media sculpture being built for the courtyard in front of the new Oscar Theater designed by
Eddie Sotto The structure appeared to be 3 strands of film 5 stories high suspended down in the shape of a DNA helix. Each 'film frame' was represented by a Panasonic flatscreen TV. She also co-created and produced the media to play on the screens. Assembled the team and figured out the delivery system. Accomplished the mini mock up before project was canceled.
Co-created Willisville, a story-driven interactive interface for multiple platforms with partner
Allee Willis.[2]