Howard Gertler

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Howard Gertler
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Years active1999–present

Howard Gertler is an American film producer. He has produced narrative and documentary films including Shortbus (2006), World's Greatest Dad (2009), How to Survive a Plague (2012), How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017), Crip Camp (2020), and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022). He has been nominated for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA.

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Career

While at Princeton University, Gertler served as an intern at Good Machine, where he decided to become a producer. [1] Gertler additionally served as head of production at Process Media from 2001 to 2011. [2] Gertler founded Little Punk, a production company. [3]

Gertler served as a producer on the narrative films Shortbus and How to Talk to Girls at Parties directed by John Cameron Mitchell. [4] [5]

In 2012, Gertler served as a producer on How to Survive a Plague directed by David France, which he was nominated for an Academy Award. [6] [7] In 2014, Gertler served as a producer on Do I Sound Gay? . [8]

In 2020, Gertler served as an executive producer on Crip Camp directed by James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [9] [10]

In 2022, Gertler served as a producer on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed directed by Laura Poitras, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and BAFTA. [11] [12] [13]

In 2023, Gertler served as an executive producer on Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York directed by Anthony Caronna, and executive produced by Liz Garbus and Charlize Theron for HBO. [14]

Personal life

Gertler is gay. [15]

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