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JOSH ARONSON, Director

After starting his career as a still photographer for Time Life, Aronson began directing television films and commercials. Through Aronson Films he directed MTV videos, television pilots and specials and over 500 commercials before turning to documentaries in 1999. Since then Aronson has made award-winning documentaries on a fascinating variety of topics. He directed the Academy Award nominated Sound and Fury, The Opposite Sex and Beautiful Daughters for Showtime, the feature documentary Bullrider and many other films. He is also a concert pianist and regularly plays chamber music in New York and at the Telluride Musicfest, the chamber music festival he founded in 2002 with his wife, violinist Maria Bachmann. From 1985-1993 Aronson was president of Gilson/Aronson Films, a commercial and MTV production company based in New York.

Filmography

 

 

 

2010-2012 – Producer/Director

Orchestra of Exiles

2008-2009 Producer/Director

Hudson River Short Films Series

2006-2007 Producer/Director

Sound and Fury: 6 Years Later

2004 -2005 Director

Bullrider

2004-2005 Co-Director/Producer

Beautiful Daughters

2002-2003 Co-Producer/Director

The Opposite Sex

2000-2004 Producer/Director

Feelin’ No Pain

2000 -2001 Producer/Director

Playing for Real

2000-2003 Director/Producer

Twins

2000 Director/Executive Producer

Sound & Fury

1999 Director

Outward Bound (15 episodes)

1998 Director 

Take a Moment

1997 Director/Producer

Drawing in Space

1996 Director

The Many Trials of Tammy B

1996 Director

Nurses

1995 Director

A Decade of Digital Sound

1994 Director/Producer

On the Road with John Cafferty

1990 Director

The Hat Factory
   

Awards
Awards: Academy Award nomination, Time Life Freddy Award, Best Film Heartland Film Festival, Best Documentary St. Louis Film Festival, Golden Spire - San Francisco Film Festival, National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award, Independent Spirit Award nomination, Best Documentary LA Outfest, Best Documentary NY Visionquest, The Japan Prize, Grand Prize, Clio Award, Addy Award, Bronze Prize, Columbus Film Festival.

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