How I Write: A Conversation With Bill Guttentag About Film And Television

Bill Guttentag is a two-time Oscar-winning documentary and feature film writer-producer-director. He also co-wrote and co-directed Nanking, a theatrical documentary that premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and features Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway, and Jürgen Prochnow. Also in 2007 he wrote and directed Live!-a dramatic feature starring Eva Mendes and Andre Braugher. Soundtrack for a Revolution had its international premiere at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. He is currently in post-production on Knife Fight, a film he directed and co-wrote about a Democratic political consultant, starring Rob Lowe, Jamie Chung, Julie Bowen, Carrie-Ann Moss, Eric McCormack, Jennifer Morrison, Richard Schiff, and Saffron Burrows. It is scheduled for release in 2012.
In addition to his two Academy Awards, Guttentag won two Oscars for his documentary work and was nominated for three others. He has also received a Peabody Award, three Emmy Awards and two Emmy nominations, two Writers Guild Award nominations, a Producers Guild Award nomination, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. His films have been selected for the Sundance Film Festival three times and have played and won awards at numerous American and international film festivals. They have also received a number of special screenings internationally and in the US, including at the White House.
His first novel, Boulevard, was published in 2010. He is a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches a course on the film and television business. Hlton Obenzinger, an accomplished fiction and nonfiction writer and lecturer in the Department of English, American Studies, and Continuing Studies, will engage Bill Guttentag in conversation, focusing on the techniques, quirks, and joys of writing.
Thursday, February 9
7:30 pm
Geology Corner (Bldg. 320), Room 105
FREE; no registration is required
This event is co-sponsored by the Hume Writing Center and Stanford Continuing Studies. For video, audio, and transcripts of previous How I Write conversations go to: continuingstudies.stanford.edu/howiwrite