Gary Weimberg

Biography

Gary Weimberg has spent the last two decades making award-winning documentaries as a producer, director, editor, writer, and camera person. 9 primetime documentary specials. Hundreds of web videos. Big budget programs and one-person-intimate efforts. He has been nominated for 6 Emmy awards and won two national Emmy Awards (Earth and the American Dream (1992); Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (1994)) Two documentaries that he edited were nominated for Academy Awards (Memorial 1989; and _ Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989)_). He was nominated as Outstanding Documentary Director by the Director's Guild of America for his controversial political documentary, The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez-Gomez (1999), PBS 1999; a program that contributed directly to the Presidential Pardon and release of 12 political prisoners who had already served 19 years in prison. As part of Luna Productions, he has produced a series of documentaries for non-profit organizations that have helped to raise over $27.4 million for worthy causes and co-produced/directed/edited two feature documentaries: Three Women And A Chateau (a 100 year history of a 100 room mansion) and Soldiers Of Conscience (a look at the morality of killing in times of war, through the experiences of US soldiers in war in Iraq).