Richard Trank of Simon Wiesenthal Center launches the production company

Richard TrankThe Oscar -winning filmmaker who has spent decades working at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, many of whom leading his internal Moriah films division, and who has also supervised the programming of media content for the TBC tolerance museum in Los Angeles and Jerusalem, left the organization to launch its own production company, the films and the media of Sea Point ,, The Hollywood Reporter learned.

The new company, which will specialize in non -fiction but which will also address narrative projects, already has three documentaries in preparation – two in production, Always 28 And The road at home (The latter with the institutional support of the anti-division league) and another in development, Toto & Coco. Toto & Coco is also developed simultaneously as a narrative series.

Always 28 highlights the largely forgotten history of Nathan B. BASKINDA Jewish-American soldier injured D-Day, captured by the Nazis and died under their care. The film follows a non -profit organization seeking to locate its body and bring it home.

The road at home tells the resilience of the Israelis the day after the attacks of October 7, 2023, the deadliest against the Jews since the Holocaust, and has interviews with survivors and returned hostages, as well as their families and specialists who helped them to reappear with society.

Toto & CocoAn adaptation of the successful book 2020 Toto & Coco: spies, seduction and fight for survivalcenter on Toto Koopmana biracial and queer Vogue Model and Second World War Spy for the British who were a close associate of the French fashion designer and the Nazi sympathizer Coco Chanel.

Trank, originally from Angeleno who obtained a BA in UC-Berkeley and who did graduate work at the USC, is best known for producing 1997 Long path at homeA doc on Jewish refugees after the Holocaust, for which he received the best documentary Oscar characteristic. His other credits include the years 1991 Echoes that remain1995 Release2001 Looking for peace2004 Improbable heroes2006 Never2007 I never forgot you2009 Against the tide (for which he was nominated for the best original price of writers of scenarios), 2011 Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny2012 It’s not a dream2013 Prime Ministers: the pioneers2015 Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers And Our boy and 2018 Never stop dreaming: the life and heritage of Shimon Peres.

During his cinema, Trank interviewed countless eminent people, including Israeli Prime Ministers Shimon Peres,, Yitzhak Shamir,, Yizhak Rabin,, Ariel Sharon,, Ehud Barak And Benjamin Netanyahu; American presidents Ronald Reagan,, Barack Obama,, Bill Clinton And George W. Bush; and a wide variety of others, including Simon Wiesenthal,, Barbra Streisand,, Joseph Heller,, Jane Funda And Isaac Stern.