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2007
Producer/Director, Your Life In Stereo, Aronson’s 6th film on the world of the deaf. This half hour film focuses on 3 deaf people who have received bi lateral cochlear implants. Film is in wide Educational and DVD Distribution.

2006
Producer/Director, Sound and Fury: 6 Years Later, the long-awaited follow up film to Aronson's Academy Award nominated Sound and Fury.
The film is a stand-alone in wide video distribution.

2004 -2005
Director, Bullrider, a feature documentary that follows 3 world champion bull riders for a full season of the PBR from Cheyenne Frontier Days to the Vegas Finals. An Off The Pier Production. In theaters now. Television broadcast worldwide in 2007.

2004-2005
Co-Director/Producer, Beautiful Daughters, a film about the
first all transsexual production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues performed in Los Angeles with a cast of 30 transwomen from across America. Film focuses in on 3 characters who depict success stories for young transwomen today. The film is broadcast on LOGO.

2002-2003
Co- Producer, Director, The Opposite Sex, two feature length documentary films that follow the painful journies of two transgendered people in America today. One film focuses on a male to female and the other on a female to male. The films premiered on SHOWTIME in 2004 and are presently on LOGO.

2000-2004
Producer, Director, Feelin No Pain. A feature documentary about Kenny Vance and the Planotones. The film features explores legends of doo-wop music and nostalgia for 50s era Brooklyn. Distribution and broadcast to be announced.

2000 -2001
Producer/Director, Playing for Real an hour documentary that
looks closely at the classical music world today focusing on difficulties of career building in a rapidly expanding cultural climate. Featuring Dawn Upshaw, Michael Tilson Thomas, Isaac Stern, Emanuel Ax, Ruth Laredo and the 14-year-old prodigy violinist, Mayuko Kamio. Playing for Real, broadcast on PBS available through PBS Homevideo.

2000-2003
Producer/Director, Twins. A follow up to Sound & Fury that follows the twin children in that film and another set of twins for 3 years to compare language development between a deaf implanted identical twin and his hearing twin sib. In distribution, not for broadcast.

2000
Director/Executive Producer, Sound & Fury, Academy Award nominee, 2001. A feature documentary about a loving family torn apart by a medical technology which promises to end deafness. Premiered Sundance, January 2000. Released theatrically in 2001 broadcast on PBS January 2002. A WNET/Channel 4 Co-Production.

1999
Director, 15 episodes of Outward Bound, a Lancit Media/Discovery Kids half hour series presented on the Discovery Channel. Larry Lancit, Executive producer.

1998
Director, Take a Moment, half-hour special on family values aired simultaneously on 48 cable networks. National Cable Television Association (NCTA) sponsored, Nickelodeon/Next Next Entertainment co-production. Laurie Meadoff, Executive Producer.

1997
Director/Producer, Drawing in Space, a documentary film about the sculptor, Mark DiSuvero on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his association with Storm King Sculpture Park. Produced by Storm King and Oil & Steel Gallery.

1996
Director, The Many Trials of Tammy B, a CityKids/Nickelodeon half-hour dramatic pilot. Laurie Meadoff, CityKids Executive Producer; Albee Hecht, Amy Friedman, Nickelodeon executives.

1996
Director, Nurses a documentary film that looks closely at the world of Nursing. Produced by Merck Pharmaceuticals.

1995
Director, A Decade of Digital Sound A SONY produced film on the 10 year history of digital CD technology. Featuring Isaac Stern, Tony Bennett, Kenny G and other SONY artists and producers.

1994
Director/Producer, On the Road with John Cafferty, a half hour Cinemax Album Flash profiling "The Beaver Brown Band" on their national tour. Produced by CBS Records.

1990
Director, The Hat Factory, half hour comedy pilot produced by Jean Doumanian Productions, Jean Doumanian, Producer.

1985-1993
Aronson was president of Gilson/Aronson Films, a commercial and MTV production company based in New York. Directed scores of commercials and MTV videos for agencies and record companies worldwide.


Awards Academy Award nomination, Time Life Freddy Award, Best Film Heartland Film Festival, Best Documentary St. Louis Film Festival, Golden Spire - San Francisco Film Festival, National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award, Independent Spirit Award nomination, Best Documentary LA Outfest, Best Documentary NY Visionquest, The Japan Prize - Grand Prize, Clio Award nominations, Addy Awards, Bronze Award of Excellence - Columbus International Film Festival.

Affiliation - Directors Guild of America


Josh Aronson
35 East 20th Street
New York, N.Y. 10003
Phone - 212 253-6941
Josharon@aol - Aronsonfilms.com