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Marc Smerling is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated producer, writer, director, cinematographer and founder of Truth Media Inc., a television and podcast production company bringing unique visions and voices to investigative stories. Smerling produced and shot much of The Jinx - The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, a six-part series about Robert Durst, which aired on HBO in 2015. The series received six Primetime Emmy nominations - including Best Cinematography for Smerling - and won for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. “The Jinx” also won a Peabody Award and lead to the arrest of Mr. Durst for the murder of his best friend in California. Smerling also co-wrote and produced the narrative feature All Good Things (2010) starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, and Frank Langella, and produced the acclaimed documentary Catfish (2010) released by Universal Pictures.  He is executive producer of Catfish, the TV series. He produced the landmark documentary film Capturing the Friedmans, (2003) which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and won 18 major international prizes including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival and the New York Film Critics Circle Best Non-Fiction Film award.  Smerling laid the path for the popularity of true crime podcasts when he created Crimetown in 2016.  It landed atop many 2017 podcast top-ten lists, including The New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly.  For his collective contributions to the podcast industry, iHeartRadio named Smerling the “Podcast Innovator of the Year” in 2019.  In an exclusive partnership with Sony Music Entertainment in 2020, he and his team have begun creating a slate of investigative podcasts, including "Morally Indefensible", a companion to Smerling’s nonfiction television series, "A Wilderness Of Error", produced in partnership with Blumhouse Television for FX Networks.