Forward In Time

For the past 20 years, Parallel Lines has been providing video development, design, production and marketing services to corporate clients and non-profit organizations from New York City to Maui, Hawaii. Our aim has always been to help clients identify specific marketing, promotional or educational that can be met with video or multimedia presentations. Each marketing analysis we've developed has focused on the technological, business, economic, promotional, or social needs of clients.

We have been fortunate enough to produce more than 25 hours of programming with budgets ranging from $10,000 to $3 million and have managed production shoots in more than 25 states, Canada and Mexico.
As a producer, director and writer, Stanley Stern has developed projects ranging from TV spots to video seminars PBS documentaries to corporate marketing programs to the simultaneous productions of a series of 12 one-hour instructional programs for Chevron USA. Stanley's specialty is client and product interaction, insuring that the needs of a client or sponsor are fully represented in the finished video presentation. Clients have included Manor HealthCare (12 programs), The National Work/Family Alliance, Tyson Pharmaceuticals, Caterpillar Inc., Chevron USA/Ortho Books (12 home videos), Hills Pet Products, Manifold Productions, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, the Maui Economic Development Board (3 programs), Hale Makua, Children’s Choice Learning Centers and Lipton Corporate Child Care. Beginning in 1998, Parallel Lines has also created 3 new music-based video series for young children (DID YOU KNOW THAT ...?, HUMPBACK HOLIDAY and LET'S BE SAFE) for distribution in Hawaii and on the Mainland.

Since 1994, Parallel Lines has also developed an expertise in using our video training and experience to create 4 PBS documentaries on a variety of family, workplace, aging and health-related issues. In cooperation with PBS affiliate KRCB-TV, Stanley has produced and written Our Kids, Our Jobs: Child Care & The Workplace (1994), Our Parents, Ourselves (1997), Our Children, Our Future (2001) and Forward In Time (2004). Parallel Lines is currently in pre-production a new PBS documentary in cooperation with KRCB-TV. For more information about The Power Of Play, please contact Stanley Stern at 631-329-6998 or ss@ForwardInTime.com.

In 2003, Parallel Lines created this web site to promote its production efforts and market its own documentaries. ForwardInTime.com is dedicated exclusively to bringing critically acclaimed and cutting-edge educational documentaries & films to the college and library marketplaces. Since its launch, To date, we have approximately 100 documentaries and educational films in The Documentary Library and we have sold programs to more than 700 colleges, nursing schools, medical centers, public libraries and government agencies in the U.S., Canada and Australia.

For more information and to view clips from the programs we distribute, click on the "purchase" button above.