John Fitzgerald Keitel

When Fred Karger began running for President of the United States in February 2010, filmmaker John Fitzgerald Keitel was at his side. John spent the next two years documenting Fred’s historic campaign as the first openly gay candidate for president from a major political party. Now a one-hour documentary, FRED gives audiences an inside look at life on the campaign trail, traveling with Fred from the hamlets of New Hampshire to the corn fields of Iowa, with stops in New Orleans, New York, Washington, D.C., and others, along the way. Witness history as Fred shakes things up by taking the fight for LGBT rights directly under the flaps of the big tent.

Editing, writing, producing, and directing of behind-the-scenes specials of some of Hollywood's biggest movies for Columbia Pictures, Sony Entertainment, Miramax Films, Touchstone Pictures, Flower Films, Newline Cinemas, Fox Studios, Warner Brothers, Focus Features, and for broadcast on HBO's First Look, Stars Encore, Showtime, The Oprah Winfrey Show, F/X, and others. Including: Everyone Says I Love You, Stuart Little, Charlie's Angels, Ali, As Good As It Gets, A Civil Action, Brokeback Mountain, Big Daddy, Beloved, Dance With Me, Hanging Up, What Planet Are You From?, Dungeons & Dragons, Daredevil, Master & Commander, Garfield, The Day After Tomorrow, Son of the Mask, Miss Congeniality 2, Walk the Line, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, America's Sweethearts.

Making Ideas a Reality: A team of kids from Northern California fights forest fires for Sony Europe

I produced and was the director of photography of this feature length documentary that world premiered at Telluride and went on to screen and win awards at numerous international film festivals before being released theatrically and airing on the Sundance Channel, the BBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., and others.