Guest: Mitchell Block - President Direct Cinema Ltd

Mitchell Block is a multi-award winning executive producer who specializes in conceiving, developing, producing, marketing and distributing independent features, reality programming and documentaries. Currently, Block is producing POSTER GIRL for HBO a documentary short directed by Sarah Nelson and he is producing a series for AMC Television in partnership with Scott Free Productions. He is an executive producer and co-creator of the Emmy Award winning CARRIER, PBS’ 10-hour series, and companion feature documentary, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, both of which he conceived. CARRIER is the first film/video project to embed on a Navy war ship for an entire six-month deployment and was financed by Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions. Block was an executive producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary BIG MAMA for HBO. With Ken Burns, he executive produced ALONE ACROSS AUSTRALIA. His short film NO LIES (produced and directed in 1973) was selected by the Librarian of Congress in 2008 to be preserved for all time and is one of the 500 American films so designated to date. Some of the other seven films from 1973 selected include MEAN STREETS, BADLANDS, AMERICAN GRAFFITI and THE STING. You can email your questions to 123FilmEasy@Gmail.com and we'll answer them "LIVE ON AIR." Link: www.123FilmEasy.com. Follow us on "Twitter" at https://twitter.com/123Film.