On this episode, I spoke to producer Howard Gertler about his prolific career. 

Gertler is a 2x Oscar nominee for his work on How to Survive a Plague and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. 

In 2007, Gertler won the Producers Award for the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

For How to Survive a Plague, Gertler won a Gotham Award for Best Documentary and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. 

For All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Gertler was nominated for BAFTA Film Award for Best Documentary, a Cinema Eye Honors Award for Nonfiction Feature, a Gotham Award for Best Documentary, and a British Independent Film Award for Best International Independent Film. He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary for the Laura Poitras directed project. 

His latest project is called Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked a Queer New York, where he was a writer and executive producer.