Marc Smerling

Smerling is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker who produced the landmark documentary Capturing The Friedmans (2003), which won 18 major international prizes including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award. He co-wrote and produced the narrative feature All Good Things (2010) starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, and Frank Langella, and produced the Sundance darling documentary Catfish (2010) released by Universal Pictures. He is executive producer of Catfish, the TV series. He produced The Jinx, a six-part series for HBO (2015) about the scion of one of New York City's richest real estate families accused of three murders over twenty five years. Marc's first podcast series, Crimetown: Providence landed atop many 2017 podcast top ten lists, including The New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly. The Ringer called it "cinema for your ears." Interview Magazine said it was an "ambitious, anthropological epic." The second season of C