PC Degrees: B.A. in theology; honorary doctor of fine arts degree (2009)

Career Path Highlights:   After earning a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1977, Doblmeier served as field producer and international segment director for the television newsmagazine, Evening/PM Magazine, for two years. From 1979-1982, he was creator and senior producer of Real to Reel, a weekly, nationally syndicated television newsmagazine on religion.

Doblmeier founded Journey Films in Alexandria, Va., in 1984. The television and film documentary company produces programs that explore religion, spirituality, history, and social issues. His documentaries have received more than two-dozen national and international awards and have aired on PBS, ABC, NBC, the BBC, The History Channel, and other networks in the United States and abroad. He has filmed in more than 45 countries and profiled Nobel laureates, leading religious leaders, and heads of state.

Journey's first theatrical release, Bonhoeffer, opened in cities nationally and internationally in 2003. The film on the German theologian and Nazi resister, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, won five major awards, including a prestigious Gabriel Award, which recognizes uplifting and inspiring stories of film, radio, television.

Journey's 2007 documentary, The Power of Forgiveness, which explores how the various faith traditions and health sciences address the concept of forgiveness, captured five major honors--the U.S. International Film Festival Award, the Sun Valley Film Festival Award, the Silver Screen Award from the International Film and Video Festival, The Telly Award, and the top award from the Religion Communicators Council. It was released to national public television in 2008.

Another production, Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa, released in 2006, won a Gabriel Award and The Telly Award. The docu-drama on the Nobel laureate continues to air on public television.

His latest film, Washington National Cathedral: A New Century, A New Calling, was shown on various public television stations on Easter Sunday 2009. The film highlights the century of building America's "national house of prayer."

Other acclaimed productions include Taize: That Little Springtime (1986), Creativity: Touching the Divine (1994), and Final Blessing (1997).

Family: Wife, Jelena, and son, Nik.

Staying Involved with the Community: Doblmeier is a board member of Children's Hospice International. He has been a featured speaker, film presenter, and discussion leader in more than 100 churches, synagogues, and theaters across America, as well as at the United Nations. He has appeared as a guest on numerous national and international programs.

Staying involved with PC: Doblmeier discussed his award-winning film, Bonhoeffer, with PC students during a campus lecture in October 2003. 

He presented the Commencement Address and received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree at the College's Ninety-First Commencement Exercises on May 17, 2009, at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence.
 
"Transforming" quotes from Doblmeier's Commencement Address: "As you go forward from here and create your own success stories, trust in those values that were reinforced at PC. Let those values guide you to treat others not just as numbers on a spreadsheet or stepping stones to your monthly quota but as living, breathing human beings."

"Providence College was a great experience for me. It gave me the environment where my natural curiosity about God, religion, and spirituality could grow and develop and be put to the test in ways I had never experienced."

"I know many of you here at Providence College give of yourselves in community service projects--helping out with Habitat for Humanity, Special Olympics, feeding the hungry, caring for the elderly. As you have been doing those seemingly small acts, you have been peace builders. To paraphrase Gandhi, "You have actually been living out the change you hope to see in our world."
 
"And we need change in our world--change was the most important word in the most important election we've seen in years. Change, or as they like to say at PC, transformation; the transformation of students, who in turn transform our world."