Arnie Gelbart

Film and Television

Arnie Gelbart has been producing award-winning documentaries, feature films, and television shows for the last 20 years. His film career began in the 1970s as assistant-director on celebrated director Luis Buñuel’s, Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, and as co-writer of the audacious Montenegro. President of Galafilm since 1990, he has produced what is arguably Canada’s most controversial ever documentary, Brian and Terence McKenna’s The Valour and the Horror. It documented incidences of military brutality and incompetence by allied troops in key WWII battles, angered many Canadian veterans, and won five Gemini and Gémeaux awards. Several awards were also won for The Origins of AIDS and the television series, Cirque du Soleil – Fire Within. With offices in Montreal’s Mile End, Gelbart has also produced seven feature films, including The Blue Butterfly and The Hanging Garden, and several television shows, including international hits The Worst Witch, Fungus the Bogeyman, and their newest production, the comedy series 18 to Life. (PF)