Howard Gertler
Howard Gertler is an American film producer. He has produced narrative and documentary films including Shortbus, World's Greatest Dad, How to Survive a Plague, How to Talk to [Girls at Parties], Crip Camp, and the Peabody Award-winning documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA.
Career
While at Princeton University, Gertler served as an intern at Good Machine, where he decided to become a producer. Gertler additionally served as head of production at Process Media from 2001 to 2011. Gertler founded Little Punk, a production company.Gertler served as a producer on the narrative films Shortbus and How to Talk to Girls at Parties directed by John Cameron Mitchell.
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. In 2014, Gertler served as a producer on Do I Sound Gay?.
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].
In 2022, Gertler served as a producer on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed directed by Laura Poitras, for which won a Peabody Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and BAFTA.
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.