John Sharify is one of the most honored broadcast journalists and documentary filmmakers in the country. He is a 79-time Emmy award winner with nine National Edward R. Murrow awards, including the National Murrow for top news writer in the country in 2004, 2007, 2008, and 2020. John is also the recipient of the 2021 DuPont Columbia award, the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, for his ‘death with dignity’ documentary “Bob’s Choice”. His 2010 documentary about the holocaust, “The Boys of Terezin,” has been shown in film festivals in Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, West Palm, Miami, New Jersey and Seattle.
In 2012, John Sharify gave a Ted x Talk about his National Murrow award winning documentary “Climb of a Lifetime”, which chronicled the lives of recovering addicts who were training and eventually climbed Mt. Rainier. John is a proud graduate of Princeton University. He has a Master of Fine Arts degree in film directing from Columbia University. He was a student of Oscar winning film director Milos Forman.
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