Deutsch, Ron

Ron Deutsch has lived an adventurous and varied life and is now focused on making documentary films. He has been a concert sound engineer with bands ranging from the Grateful Dead to the Dead Kennedys. He worked as a production assistant for David and Albert Maysles, a story analyst with clients including director James Cameron and the Showtime Network, as well as selling several of his own screen and teleplays. His work as a journalist has appeared in periodicals including the Austin American-Statesman, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Gramophone, Wired News, and his fiction has been twice featured in the Mississippi Review. He is a former contributing editor to Sonicnet/MTV News where he was co-recipient of the 2000 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism. He has lectured on film genre theory and story analysis at conventions around the country, and a collection of quotes he edited, "Inspirational Hollywood," was chosen as a Writer’s Digest Book Club Selection in 1997. On the Internet, Ron developed and produced content for outfits including Excite, Infoseek, and Reel.com. His web design work has been featured in Art in America magazine and he co-produced the 1st Internet Animation Festival for Digital City/AOL. Ron's first short film, "Blueberry Thrill" was shown on Maine PBS, his next film "Sometimes I Feel Like a Found Object" premiered at the Dallas Video Festival in 2004, and his camera work was seen recently on a CBS' 60 Minutes segment. In 2005, he completed a concert film of the all-HIV+ Sinikithemba Choir from Durban, South Africa, and "The Big Buy," a documentary on Texas Prosecutor Ronnie Earle and Congressman Tom Delay which Ron did 2nd camera and is associate producer, has been picked up for distribution by Robert Greenwald. He is currently at work on several feature documentary projects and lives in Austin, Texas with two and a half cats.