Portrait of Tony Gerber. Tony is in front of a photo call, he wears a jacket, a buttoned shirt, and thick frames. He has short heard, beard, and mustache. He looks directly at the camera and smiles slightly.
Tony Gerber
Photo courtesy Tony Gerber
Producer

Tony Gerber (he/him) is an Emmy® and PGA Award-winning writer, producer, and filmmaker. He is a producer of the film Jane (director: Brett Morgen), about the life and work of Dr. Jane Goodall. For CNN Films he directed and co-wrote with Meryl Streep, We Will Rise, chronicling former First Lady Michelle Obama’s trip to Africa, to raise awareness of the importance of girls’ education. The film won an American Television Academy Honors Award and a CINE Golden Eagle Award. In 2005, Gerber co-founded NY-based production company Market Road Films with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Nottage and Gerber Executive Produced Unfinished: Deep South, a 10-part podcast for Stitcher investigating an unsolved 1950s lynching, and are currently developing a feature film, Everlasting Yea!, for Amazon Studios.

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