Name Kary Antholis Role Filmmaker | Parents Evanthia Siblings William J. Antholis | |
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Education Bowdoin College, Stanford University Awards Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject Movies and TV shows One Survivor Remembers, The Shadow of Hate, The Children of Chabannes, The Cape Similar People Gerda Weissmann Klein, William J Antholis, Sheila Nevins, Michael Berenbaum, John Debney | ||
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Kary Antholis (born 1962) is an American executive at the television network HBO and documentary filmmaker. Antholis currently serves as co-chair of board of directors for Young Storytellers.
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Biography
Antholis grew up in Florham Park, New Jersey and attended the Delbarton School in Morris Township, New Jersey. He is a 1984 graduate of Bowdoin College, earned a Master's Degree in History at Stanford University with a focus on the historical role European nations in Africa and graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1989. He has one brother, William J. Antholis, managing director of the Brookings Institution.
As an executive he has been responsible for Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning projects, both dramatic and documentary, including Mildred Pierce, The Pacific, John Adams, Generation Kill, Elizabeth I, Angels in America, The Corner, Wit, The Gathering Storm, From the Earth to the Moon and Educating Peter.
As a filmmaker he won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject (1995) and the Emmy for Outstanding Information Special (1994–95) for his film One Survivor Remembers about Holocaust survivor, Gerda Weissmann Klein. Exploring Gerda's story offered him an extraordinarily vivid connection to his own mother's experiences during the war. Antholis' mother Evanthia grew up in Nazi-occupied Greece during World War II. Weissmann's story helped Antholis understand what his mother went through when her father, Vassilios, was killed by Nazi collaborators. In 2005, the film was offered by the Southern Poverty Law Center as part of a Teaching Tolerance curriculum for high school teachers to teach their students about the realities of the Holocaust.
He currently serves as the co-chair of the board of directors for Young Storytellers, an arts education nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles.
Antholis is currently President for Miniseries at HBO.