Rex Sikes' Movie Beat chats with producer & dean of Columbia College Alan Gansberg

ALAN L. GANSBERG Dean of the College of Columbia College Hollywood, a fully accredited private college offering degrees in Cinema and Cinema/TV. While running the key areas of the College, Gansberg continues his career as a writer-producer and occasional director. He has written and/or produced more than 100 hours of television, created more than a dozen nationally-distributed documentaries, and directed several longform TV projects. Gansberg has been nominated for four Emmy Awards (two for writing, one for producing, and one for documentary writing), and is a part winner and long-time trustee of The Humanitas Prize, which Daily Variety has called “The Pulitzer Prize of television writing.” He has also been honored with two Ohio State Awards, and been nominated or won a host of other honors, including nominations for the Writers Guild of America Award and the NAACP Image Award. Among his credits are “My Past is My Own?” a CBS film starring Whoopi Goldberg, for which Gansberg won the Humanitas Prize, “Little Miss Perfect,” a CBS film directed by Marsha Mason, “Have Your Tried Talking to Patty?,” which was the highest rated children’s live action special in CBS history at the time it aired, and “NYTV: By the People Who Made It,” a two-part PBS documentary hosted by Walter Cronkite and Al Roker. Gansberg is also a recognized film and Hollywood historian and is frequently in front of the cameras as a film and media expert. His books include Little Caesar: A Biography of Edward G. Robinson, and Direct Encounters. He began his career in Hollywood as the TV Editor of The Hollywood Reporter and has written more than 2,000 articles on Hollywood, film, TV and related subjects for publications as wide ranging as The New York Times and Forbes, among many others. Stay tuned to Rex Sikes Movie Beat for other great archived interviews, cast and crew listings, events, festivals, premieres, and more at http://www.rexsikes.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.