Marshall Herskovitz: Pioneering the Anti-Hero on Television from Digital VIP Salon Series

DIGITAL VIP SALON SERIES: PIONEERING THE ANTI-HERO ON TELEVISION

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

The Producers Guild of America presents a discussion with legendary writer/producer Marshall Herskovitz, the creator of TV shows 30 Something and My So Called Life, as well as the producer of films Traffic, Blood Diamond and The Last Samurai. He will share his experiences in pushing the boundaries of storytelling by being one of the first to bring ambivalent, emotional characters to television that were not always right. Marshall and his partner Ed Zwick were vilified by critics as paved the way for many of the nihilistic, antiheroes that fill the world of cable television today.

This monthly program on the advancement of storytelling, will host
cocktails followed by an interview and Q&A with visionaries, innovators and producers who are changing the way we create, consume and share media.
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Marshall Herskovitz is a writer, producer, and director in Los Angeles who has won many awards for his work in television and film. Born in Philadelphia, he attended Brandeis University, then moved to Los Angeles in 1975, where he attended the American Film Institute and met his longtime creative partner Edward Zwick. In the years since he helped create such TV series as thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, and Once and Again. Among the films he has produced are Legends of the Fall, Traffic, The Last Samurai, and Blood Diamond. He also directed Jack the Bear and the cult favorite Dangerous Beauty. In 2007, Herskovitz created the ground-breaking online series and social network quarterlife, which at the time was the internet's most successful scripted series. Herskovitz, a longtime environmentalist, has served on the board of several organizations dedicated to fighting climate change. He was a founding member of the 1Sky organization, which recently merged with the fast-growing 350.org. Herskovitz is a past president of the Producers Guild of America.
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