Michael Kantor
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Production
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.
Filmography
- The Good Life (2026)
- Wilder (2026)
- American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026)
- Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026)
- W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause (2026)
- Starring Dick Van Dyke (2025)
- Lani B. Supreme: Legacy (2025)
- Cindy Tran: From Here to Here (2025)
- Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny (2025)
- Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (2025)
- Marcella (2025)
- Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse (2025)
- The Disappearance of Miss Scott (2025)
- Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire (2024)
- Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames (2024)
- The Rooster (2024)
- Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely (2023)
- Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology (2023)
- Sydney G. James: How We See Us (2023)
- Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023)
- Groucho & Cavett (2022)
- Roberta (2022)
- Jerry Brown: The Disrupter (2022)
- Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands (2022)
- Becoming Helen Keller (2021)
- A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings (2021)
- Ailey (2021)
- Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)
- Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (2021)
- How It Feels to Be Free (2021)
- Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is (2020)
- Mae West: Dirty Blonde (2020)
- Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage (2019)
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)
- Words from a Bear (2019)
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)
- Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017)
- Itzhak (2017)
- When Patsy Cline Was... Crazy (2017)
- Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016)
- Bad Girl (2016)
- Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016)
- Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)
- By Sidney Lumet (2015)
- Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy (2013)
- Give Me the Banjo (2011)
- Quincy Jones: In the Pocket (2001)