Larry Weitzman

Larry Weitzman is a four-time Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and producer. His award-winning documentaries include the Emmy Award-winning, Whatever Happened to Michael Ray? and NBA at 50, as well as the theatrical documentaries, The Year of the Yao and The Last Gladiators, which he produced and wrote with Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney, both of which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. He has also written screenplay adaptations of Ainchee Min's Becoming Madame Mao for Endgame Entertainment and Jon Feinstein’s The Punch.

His work also includes writing for the critically acclaimed Jurassic Fight Club series, The Next Nostradamus special, and The Lost Book of Nostradamus, History Channel's highest-rated special to that time, and producing and writing Nostradamus 2012, History Channel's third highest-rated special at that time. Some of his other writing work Inside Stuff, NBA Stories, and NBA Access for NBC, and script doctoring The Mystery of Nostradamus for Discovery. He has also directed short films for the Breakthrough Prize as well as Bo, Barkley and the Big Hurt for ESPN, produced Football Inside Out with Phil Simms, Boomer Esiason and Cris Collinsworth for Hulu, produced and wrote for Dwight Howard: in The Moment for Epix, and was a producer for the Emmy Award-nominated documentaries Manute Bol Basketball Warrior, and Bill Russell My Life My Way for HBO.

As Vice President of Programming and Production and Head of Development for NBA Entertainment, he produced and wrote the Emmy nominated and Cable Ace award-winning Totally Kids Sports series for Nickelodeon, as well as other series and specials for NBC, ESPN, ABC, TNT The Food Network, History Channel, BET, and others. And he developed and wrote the Monitor Award-winning line of Michael Jordan home videos that include some of the highest-grossing special interest titles in history.

Ghost Rendition is Larry's debut novel.