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From Today’s Washington Post
A book review on Nanjing Requiem.
It sounded so familiar.Reminded me of the film Nanking which I created and produced in 2006. It won an Emmy Award as it played on HBO staring Woody Harrelson and many other Hollywood filmanthropists.
Here is a book published five years later. Go see my film. Rent it today from Amazon.com. Click here. Thanks.
Christian Bale
Nanking
Here is my film housed on SnagFilms.com.
This week marks the anniversary of the Japanese invasion of Nanking in 1937.
If you haven’t seen the film, I would be honored if you took the time to watch it. Thank you.
John Getz
John Getz played George Fitch in our film Nanking.
He is a great actor. He now plays the chief lawyer to fake Mark Zuckerberg in the film The Social Network.
I saw the film this weekend. It was well done but I am sure NOT accurate in totality about the founding of this great young company. Hollywood takes its liberties in the name of storytelling, drama and three acts - that is for sure.
Thank God for the Goddess
Sheila Nevins is a goddess. She is serious and talented and the most important figure out there to documentary film makers. HBO showcases great films and original programming like no other network, and Sheila is the person who has the “golden gut” and great taste. When she falls in love with a film, the film maker is far better off for it.
I was honored that she chose to acquire “Nanking” for HBO. She and her team worked tirelessly on its behalf and helped us to secure a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award.
She is the best. Thanks HBO too!
I have made two films. The distributor of Nanking, Thinkfilms, is out of business. The second film “Kicking It” — the distributor is out of business. The DVD distributor is out of business, too! This industry is shrinking and is in trouble. Sheila Nevins is a goddess.
Thank goodness HBO still thrives. Thank goodness SnagFilms is rocking, as is IndieWIRE, too!
A Lot to be Grateful for – A Lot to Mourn and Miss
It is the heart of the holiday season, the festive week of Christmas to New Year’s. It is time to reflect and be grateful for what we have and not miss what we don’t have.
Last year this time we all were feeling doom and gloom. The market was down. There were no loans to be had. People were losing jobs left and right and the aura and psychology of the market and the overall economy was really bad.
As we close on 2009, I must confess that the year was one of goodness and counter intuitive wins mixed with sadness.
I am most grateful for the health of my family and friends.
And the Washington Capitals had a magnificent twelve months on the ice and off the ice. We had a really great record. We finished last year strong and won our first playoff series in 10 years and we are now well positioned for this next year. We also sell out all of our games. We have a backlog of people awaiting season tickets. We were able to raise our prices and we have very happy customer satisfaction levels. Who would have thought we could be that successful in this economy? I am very grateful to you all.
The Washington Mystics also grew quite fast and became one of the best performing teams in the WNBA and turned their on court performance around as well as we qualified for the playoffs.
Revolution Money grew fast; built out its platform; and – as was reported in November – was acquired by American Express at a healthy return to investors. We await final approval by the government but I believe this deal will close sometime in Q1 of 2010. This was the third largest acquisition of a new media payments platform ever behind PayPal and Bill Me Later (both by eBay) so it was a big win for us all and I am very excited about helping the American Express Company in the future as we roll out this platform into a new series of great consumer beneficial products and services.
Allow Me To Gloat One More Time
IMDB just updated its awards section on Nanking as a film. I received an alert via email.
Nanking was nominated for 10 awards and won 5 awards including a “Best Of” at Sundance; a Peabody Award; an Emmy Award; a Humanitarian Award; and Best Documentary Award as well.
Not bad for my first foray into filmmaking. I am so honored. See this list. Thank you to our directors; writers; producers; actors and everyone involved in this project.
See? I’m Not Lying
Check out this photo.
And the Emmy Goes to…
…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.