Bill Couturié
William Couturié is a film director and producer, best known for his work in the field of documentary film.
Accolades
He won the 1989 Academy Award for the AIDS documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt that he produced with Rob Epstein and multiple Emmy Awards for his 1987 film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, which he wrote, produced, and directed.Other works
Couturié was an early collaborator of filmmaker John Korty, working on his 1983 animated feature, Twice Upon a Time alongside George Lucas. His sole video game credit is serving as a producer on the Laserdisc arcade game Freedom Fighter, of which Charles Swenson and Ken Melville of Twice Upon a Time were also involved. More recently he co-produced and directed the film Guru of Go, a documentary for the ESPN 30 for 30 series about Paul Westhead' s unorthodox fast break basketball offense at Loyola Marymount University called "The System" featuring Gregory "Bo" Kimble and Hank Gathers.Filmography
- Can't It Be Anyone Else ; producer
- Porklips Now : producer
- Twice Upon a Time ; producer and writer
- Vietnam Requiem ; director and producer
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam ; director, producer and writer
- Freedom Fighter ; producer
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt ; producer
- Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers ; director and producer
- Earth and the American Dream ; director, producer and writer
- Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob ; executive producer
- Ed ; director and executive producer
- A Place at the Table ; executive producer
- Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks ; executive producer
- The West Wing Documentary Special ; director and writer
- Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq ; director and producer
- Into the Fire ; director and writer
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters ; director, producer and writer
- The Alzheimer's Project ; director and producer
- Guru of Go ; director and producer
- Thumbs ; director