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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Years active | 1999–present |
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]