Judd Ehrlich

Judd Ehrlich grew up in New York City in the shadow of the Flatiron Building. From an early age, he gravitated towards storytelling, and at fourteen, was the youngest feature reporter at a New York newspaper. No stranger to big city sports stories; Ehrlich directed and produced the Emmy nominated documentary Run For Your Life about the NYC Marathon. The film premiered to critical acclaim at the Tribeca Film Festival, released theatrically and broadcasts annually on ESPN.

Ehrlich was also nominated for an Emmy for his PBS documentary Mayor of the West Side about a teenage local celebrity growing up with multiple disabilities. Ehrlich released his third award-winning film, Magic Camp, which was optioned for a narrative adaptation. His Science Fiction Land tells the true story behind Argo. Before film, Ehrlich worked for years as a counselor and caseworker in NYC with homeless families, people with mental illness and developmentally disabled teens at Project Renewal, Homes for the Homeless and YAI. He later collaborated on the editing of Ric Burns' Emmy-winning New York and Macky Alston's Sundance winner, Family Name.

He edited for CBS News and worked for the PBS series POV. Ehrlich created and curated multiple groundbreaking film series throughout NYC hosting notables such as Darren Aronofsky, Steve Buscemi, Tony Kushner, Cyndi Lauper and Willem Dafoe. He is a graduate of Vassar and teaches filmmaking. Ehrlich moved back to his ancestral homeland of Flatbush, where one of his relatives ran a movie theater. His two children are fifth-generation residents of the neighborhood that was home to the pioneering Vitagraph Studios.

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