Introduction of Director- Bill Guttentag

Bill Guttentag wrote and directed "Live!", a dramatic feature which will premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. The film stars Eva Mendes, Andre Braugher, David Krumholtz, and Jay Hernandez, and is produced by Mosaic Media Group. He also wrote and directed "Nanking", a theatrical documentary which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The film includes a stage reading he wrote that features Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway, and Jürgen Prochnow.

In 2003 he won an Oscar for the documentary "Twin Towers (Universal)". It was his second Academy Award; the first was in 1989 for "You Don't Have to Die", a film he made for HBO.
He has also received three additional Oscar nominations, and two Emmy Awards. His films have been selected three times for the Sundance Film Festival and have played and won awards at numerous American and international film festivals. Guttentag’s films have received a number of special screenings, including one at the White House.

Bill Guttentag created and executive produced the NBC series Crime & Punishment, which ran for three seasons (2002-2004). The series was part of the Law & Order family of shows, and was created with Dick Wolf, who was also an executive producer. Over the series’ run, nearly every show was in the Nielsen top 20.

Bill Guttentag has made documentary films for HBO, ABC, CBS and others. His HBO films include "Crack USA", which was nominated for an Academy Award; and "Memphis PD: War on the Streets", for which he received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. In 1998 Guttentag directed "Assassinated: The Last Days of Kennedy and King (executive produced by Oliver Stone)" on the final year in the lives of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
He wrote, produced and directed "The Cocaine War", an ABC News/Peter Jennings Reporting special on the drug war in South America. He also made "5 American Handguns – 5 American Kids", an Emmy-nominated HBO special on children and handguns. The film was honored by Jim and Sara Brady and The Brady Center to Prevent Handgun Violence.

Bill Guttentag is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the American Film Institute. In 1998-99 he was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. Since 2001 he has been teaching a class on the film and television business at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford.

Written by Aries