Tony Gerber is an American filmmaker and the co-founder of Market Road
Films, an independent production company.Gerber was born in New York
City and lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, playwright Lynn
Nottage, and their two children, Ruby and Melkamu Gerber.Tony Gerber
is a two-time Emmy winner and recently directed and executive produced
Kingdom of the White Wolf, a 3-part natural history series for
National Geographic, filmed on location in the High Arctic. He is a
producer of the PGA award-winning film Jane about the life and work of
Dr. Jane Goodall. For CNN Films he directed, and co-wrote with Meryl
Streep, We Will Rise chronicling former First Lady Michelle Obama’s
trip to Africa to raise awareness of the importance of girl’s
education which won an American Television Academy Honor and a Cine
Golden Eagle. His independent films include Full Battle Rattle
(Berlinale premiere and SXSW Special Jury Prize) and The Notorious Mr.
Bout (Sundance premiere.) In 2005, Gerber co-founded NY-based
production company, Market Road Films with two-time Pulitzer
Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Nottage and Gerber are
currently developing a feature film, Everlasting Yea! for Amazon
Studios and are Executive Producers of Deep South, a 10-part podcast
for Stitcher investigating an unsolved 1950s lynching and the
conspiracy of silence in a small southern town. Gerber is a member of
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Films, an independent production company.Gerber was born in New York
City and lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, playwright Lynn
Nottage, and their two children, Ruby and Melkamu Gerber.Tony Gerber
is a two-time Emmy winner and recently directed and executive produced
Kingdom of the White Wolf, a 3-part natural history series for
National Geographic, filmed on location in the High Arctic. He is a
producer of the PGA award-winning film Jane about the life and work of
Dr. Jane Goodall. For CNN Films he directed, and co-wrote with Meryl
Streep, We Will Rise chronicling former First Lady Michelle Obama’s
trip to Africa to raise awareness of the importance of girl’s
education which won an American Television Academy Honor and a Cine
Golden Eagle. His independent films include Full Battle Rattle
(Berlinale premiere and SXSW Special Jury Prize) and The Notorious Mr.
Bout (Sundance premiere.) In 2005, Gerber co-founded NY-based
production company, Market Road Films with two-time Pulitzer
Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Nottage and Gerber are
currently developing a feature film, Everlasting Yea! for Amazon
Studios and are Executive Producers of Deep South, a 10-part podcast
for Stitcher investigating an unsolved 1950s lynching and the
conspiracy of silence in a small southern town. Gerber is a member of
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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