Martin Katz

Prospero Pictures Founder and President Martin Katz has produced or executive produced many award-winning feature film and television productions, including David Cronenberg's  Cosmopolis, A Dangerous Method, and Spider. Katz produced the Academy Award® and Golden Globe multi-nominee Hotel Rwanda, written and directed by Terry George, and Bronwen Hughes' Stander, which the London Observer called the greatest heist film since Reservoir Dogs.

Katz's productions also include It's a Boy Girl Thing, a co-production with Elton John and David
Furnish's Rocket Pictures, and Lord Richard Attenborough's Closing the Ring, starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer and Mischa Barton. Katz is also Executive Producer of the feature film Shake Hands With the Devil, which is based on the biography of General Roméo Dallaire and filmed entirely on location in Kigali.

Katz's television project Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... is a Gemini Award-winning series co- produced with Rocket Pictures. It continues to feature some of the most renowned musicians in the world in conversation (and performance) with Costello, including Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Elton John, Norah Jones, James Taylor, Herbie Hancock, Lou Reed and Sting, among others.

Katz holds degrees in law from the University of Toronto and the Université de Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and has served as Professor of Law at the French-language Université de Moncton and as Special Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Toronto. Katz is a Chairman of the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television, a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and a Director of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship.

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