Brooklyn Producers Lab is a unique film program
designed to foster successful creative partnerships.
BPL Fellows are mentored in producing, directing, writing,
and production management.
We're looking for creative partners, with a story to tell,
who want to learn more about filmmaking and storytelling
while producing compelling projects.
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Douglas Katz, founder of Brooklyn Producers Lab, is a writer, director and producer known for the award-winning indie feature, Life in the Food Chain (Rita Moreno, Paul Sorvino, Jonathan Silverman) and the kids' series, Alphabet Factory, hosted by New York Times best-selling author Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain). He studied filmmaking at Columbia University's Graduate Film Division where he was fortunate to study with Academy Award-winning directors George Roy Hill and John Avildsen, as well as producer Michael Hausman (Amadeus, Brokeback Mountain). He has written, collaborated on, and script doctored numerous screenplays (some of them good), and has taught screenwriting, producing, production management and the history of film and television at St. John's University and Gotham Writers Workshop.
Doug holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from Columbia University.