Our Family at Mazzarella Media
Education Through Media
Mazzarella Media produces and distributes its own distinctive, high quality educational media to professionals in learning organizations worldwide. Each title is purposely created for use in the classroom to excite learners, teach all ages and energize any learning environment. Educators have come to trust Mazzarella Media for exceptional content and the highest production standards.
In addition to our original programming, we offer production services to a wide range of companies utilizing our experience to enhance co-produced projects. (See our Strategic Partnership page for more information)
Our dedication to educators and learners doesn’t stop at video production. We offer teaching tools for use in the classroom that augment our programs. These teaching guides give educators a flexible approach to video instruction and save time by providing instant content that can be printed for students.
Our latest endeavor is to provide programming that highlights and provides information on key social issues facing classrooms and students everywhere. Timely issues like bullying, relationships, sexting and how to identify and handle anger are just a few of our productions meant to be teaching tools for the complex situations arising in schools today.
We publish media in the areas of Guidance, Health, Special Education, Science, and Social Studies. Mazzarella Media is producer and the copyright owner of all Mazzarella Media Programs and the sole direct source of these titles: 
Mazzarella Media is a family business. Founders and brothers Anthony, Thomas , and Mark, have won numerous industry awards for excellence. Winning an Emmy® Award and a Parent’s Choice™ Gold Award for the best children’s video of the year and Oppenheimer Award for the best DVD of the year remain professional highlights.
During the summer of 1972 the entrepreneurial spirit first sparked Tom and Mark Mazzarella, ages 14 and 12 respectively. They began writing and producing films using a Brownie, eight-millimeter camera. They charged admission to friends and neighbors to help cover the cost of production.
In 1984, the Mazzarella brothers, turned the live magic show into a weekly children’s television program named “Abra Kadabra”. Abra Kadabra taught math, science and language arts through the art of magic. The program was broadcast nationally on NBC affiliates throughout the United States. The experience of producing children’s programming inspired the Mazzarellas to continue to produce creative programming for the children’s market.
education market. The programs earned numerous awards. Within one year, Mazzarella programs were seen daily in over 100,000 classrooms across the United States and Canada.