Career
Guttentag would receive three more Oscar nominations before winning another Oscar for his 2003 documentary Twin Towers. In 2007, Guttentag directed two films –, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, starring Eva Mendes, Andre Braugher David Krumholtz, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jay Hernandez. And Nanking, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, a documentary about the Rape of Nanking during World World War World War II had its American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and its international premiere at the Deauville Film Festival and was be distributed in the United States by The Weinstein Company.
Its international distribution included Lions Gate Entertainment (United Kingdom) and Pretty pictures (France).
Guttentag created and executive produced the National Broadcasting Company series Crime & Punishment, which ran from 2002-2004. The show, a reality television spin-off of the Law & Order franchise, followed District Attorneys in San Diego County, California.
Guttentag"s first novel, Boulevard, was published by Pegasus Books/West.W. Norton in 2010 and the paperback version was published in May, 2011. The French edition of the book will be published in 2013 by Éditions Gallimard.
Gutentag also directed Soundtrack for a Revolution, a film about music and the Civil Rights Movement.
The film features performances by John Legend, Joss Stone, The Roots, Blind Boys of Alabama, Richie Havens, Mary Mary, Anthony Hamilton and Wyclef Jean. Soundtrack for a Revolution had its international premiere at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and its United States premiere at the Tribeca Film festival. The film was released theatrically by Area 23a, and later aired on Public Broadcasting Service. Guttentag"s film, Knife Fight, which he directed and also wrote (with political consultant Chris Lehane), stars Rob Lowe, Jamie Chung, Julie Bowen, Carrie-Anne Moss, Eric McCormack, Jennifer Morrison, and Saffron Burrows.
The film is about a Democratic political consultant and was released by International Finance Corporation in January 2013.
The film premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, and also had special screenings at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. They have also received a number of special screenings internationally and in the United States, including at the White House.
Guttentag is the co-author, (with Chris Lehane and Mark Fabiani) of the non-fiction book "Masters of Disaster: The Ten Commandments of Damage Control," which was published in December 2012 by Palgrave/Macmillan. Since 2001, Guttentag has taught a class on the film and television business at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
