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Michael Kantor
Michael Kantor is a writer, director, and producer whose work includes "Quincy Jones: In the Pocket" for American Masters, Cornerstone for HBO, and The West with Ken Burns. Prior…
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Michael Kantor is a writer, director, and producer whose work includes "Quincy Jones: In the Pocket" for American Masters, Cornerstone for HBO, and The West with Ken Burns. Prior to his work in television, Kantor was a freelance theater director and writer, published in Newsday, American Theater, and Interview. He is president of Ghost Light Films and Almo Inc., companies dedicated to bringing the arts to television. Since 2001, Michael Kantor has produced 21 hours of television for national broadcast. In addition to winning the Peabody Award and the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Series, Mr. Kantor’s productions have been recognized with seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and one Writers Guild of America Award nomination.
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2026
Wilder
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2026
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
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2026
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Movie Executive Producer
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2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
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2025
Starring Dick Van Dyke
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Cindy Tran: From Here to Here
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2025
Lani B. Supreme: Legacy
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2025
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
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2025
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
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2025
Marcella
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2025
Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
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2025
The Disappearance of Miss Scott
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
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2024
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
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2024
The Rooster
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2023
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
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2023
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
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2023
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Groucho & Cavett
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2022
Roberta
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2022
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
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2022
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
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2021
Becoming Helen Keller
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2021
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
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2021
Ailey
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2021
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
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2021
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
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2021
How It Feels to Be Free
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
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2019
Words from a Bear
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
Itzhak
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
When Patsy Cline Was... Crazy
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Mike Nichols: An American Master
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