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Oscar-nominated producer Howard Gertler’s credits include David France’s “How to Survive a Plague,” which premiered in competition at Sundance 2012 and was released by IFC Films/Sundance Selects; in addition to the Academy Award nomination, the film collected New York Film Critics’ Circle, Peabody, IFP Gotham, IDA and GLAAD Media Awards. With John Cameron Mitchell & graphic novelist Dash Shaw, he produced the short film “Seraph” for the band Sigur Ros, which premiered at Sundance 2013. He’s both an IFP/Gotham and Film Independent Spirit Award winner, the latter of which he won for producing John Cameron Mitchell’s “Shortbus,” which premiered in the official selection in Cannes and was released worldwide. In 2014, he produced the feature doc for EPIX "To Russia With Love," traveling to Sochi, Moscow and St. Petersburg during the 2014 Winter Olympics to profile the impact of Putin's anti-LGBT law on both LGBT Russian citizens and global Olympians. Producer of the feature doc “Do I Sound Gay?” (directed by David Thorpe), it premiered at Toronto 2014 and opened DOC NYC that same year, followed by a theatrical release by IFC Films/Sundance Selects. His upcoming films include John Cameron Mitchell’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s “How to Talk to Girls at Parties,” produced with See-Saw Films, Film4, Ingenious and Screen Yorkshire, to be released by A24 and Studiocanal UK. His BA in Public Policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School prepared him better for a filmmaking career than he could’ve imagined at the time.