Stuart Sender is an Academy Award nominee whose credits include two films nominated for best documentary feature: “PRISONER OF PARADISE” and “THE GARDEN.”

Most recently, Stuart produced two series for Netflix. He’s Co-Executive Producer of the Emmy-winning Netflix music series, “REMASTERED,” which was nominated for four Emmys and won one. He also directed a film for the series. He is Co-Executive Producer of the Emmy-nominated “MELTDOWN,” a four-part series about the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster. Stuart also recently wrote and produced, “RASHOMON HONG KONG,” which chronicles the political conflict there.

Stuart’s credits include writing, producing, and directing “HARMONY,” in collaboration with The Prince of Wales, Prince (now King) Charles. “HARMONY,” which focuses on sustainable solutions to global climate change, aired as a primetime special on NBC. The film had its theatrical premiere at the Sundance festival in London, where it was introduced by Sundance founder Robert Redford.

Stuart was a producer of the Showtime climate series “YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY.” Executive Produced by James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, “YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY” won the Emmy Award for best nonfiction series.

Stuart was Executive Producer of “THE GARDEN,” an Oscar-nominated documentary, which chronicles the political and real estate dispute that grew up around the largest urban garden in America, located in South Central Los Angeles. He wrote, produced, and directed the Oscar-nominated documentary “PRISONER OF PARADISE,” the story of Kurt Gerron, a German Jewish actor, director, and cabaret star who was sent to a concentration camp and ordered to make a pro-Nazi propaganda film. “PRISONER OF PARADISE” was also nominated for a Directors Guild Award. Stuart and his co-director Malcolm Clarke also won the award for best director at the Director’s Guild of Canada, and BAFTA’s prestigious Grierson Award. Stuart’s work in dramatic films includes writing the story for “THE VOW” starring Channing Tatum & Rachel McAdams.

Stuart produced the PBS series “SOUTH AFRICA NOW,” winner of an Emmy Award and a Polk Award for excellence in journalism. A career and life highlight is producing & directing the first exclusive interview with Nelson Mandela following his release from prison.

Stuart has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University. He teaches journalism at the University of Southern California.

Two-time Academy Award-winning Director Malcolm Clarke began his career making films in England for the BBC, before joining Granada TV to produce and direct the “World in Action” investigative film; “The Life and Death of Steve Biko,” a film shot entirely in secret in South Africa. On its release, Steven Biko’s controversial murder became a global cause-célèbre. “Biko” won the “Best Film” award at the Monte Carlo Film Festival.

For several years afterwards Mr. Clarke worked exclusively in conflict zones. His first US film, made for ABC News, was the Emmy award-winning “Terror in the Promised Land” a detailed chronicle of the recruitment & training of a Palestinian suicide squad. “Terror” won the “Edward R. Murrow Prize” from the “Overseas Press Club of America.”

Clarke subsequently made films in more than 80 countries – featuring Torturers, Serial Killers, Vigilantes, Mercenaries, Mobsters, and the Yakuza; ‘volatile people in extreme situations’, which garnered an Emmy, three Ace Awards and two Oscars.

Clarke’s more recent films include “Prisoner of Paradise” a documentary feature about the life & tragic death of Kurt Gerron; the celebrated German/Jewish Film Director & Actor who, while imprisoned in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp was ordered to make a propaganda film which would show the world how “well” the Jews of Europe were being treated by their Nazi captors. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature – “Prisoner” was a nominee for the DGA Award for Best Documentary. Clarke and his co-director Stuart Sender also won “Best Director” at the Directors’ Guild of Canada and BAFTA’s “John Grierson Award.”

In 2014, Malcolm Clarke won his fourth Oscar nomination and his second Academy Award for “The Lady in Number 6.”

Since 2015 Malcolm Clarke has shifted his focus to Asia, notable recent theatrical features include: “Better Angels” – a meditation on the ever-evolving relationship between the world’s two great superpowers: the United States & China; “Viral” – an as-it-happened account of the genesis of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China, from the beginning of the crisis to the city’s eventual reopening. “Viral” documents how the Chinese Government and the people of Wuhan responded to the world’s first total lockdown of a major city; “Rashomon Hong Kong” – the dramatization of the crisis in Hong Kong in 2019, when the city was on the brink of being torn apart by violent street protests calling for democracy and independence from mainland China.