…Nanking!

So said presenter Campbell Brown of CNN in the category of Best Historical Programming.

We are so humbled and honored and grateful.

Thank you to HBO Documentary Films for working so hard on our behalf. Thanks to Sheila Nevins and Sara Bernstein, two amazing executives and the best friends a filmmaker could ever have in these dark days for independent film.

It was such a pleasure to be at the Emmy Awards last night and witness Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters and Don Hewitt all being honored and recognized for their life’s work. It was so wonderful to be with my family; our director Bill Guttentag; my college roommate who served as a producer Michael Jacobs; and other key team members.

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On Monday night the Emmy Awards for News and Documentary will be presented.

Our film Nanking is up for three Emmys for Best Documentary; Best Historical Programming; and for Craft: Research.

It honestly is just an honor to be nominated.

But what is a thrill is that my son, Zachary, has his own nomination for an Emmy Award in the Craft: Research category. Zach was 16 years old when he jumped in to help us on the film. He worked diligently at the US Archives and Library of Congress and found a treasure trove of information and a long forgotten atrocities film that we used in our movie.

Wouldn’t it be something if our film won an award in this category?

And in keeping it in the family, we are hard at work at completing a new documentary film and my daughter, Elle, has been working on it with me.

It is so much fun to work on “Filmanthropy” oriented projects and to have my entire family deeply involved. Makes a father proud!