Block is an Oscar® and & multi-Emmy® Award winning & nominated executive & creative producer, writer, & consults about project development, financing, marketing & distributing features, documentaries, shorts & animated films. Experienced (on both the buy & sell side) of producing, placing works into distribution & evaluating & finding funding for projects & marketing globally. Mitchell Block holds the first Jon Anderson Chair, Professor of Documentary Studies and Production in the School of Journalism and Communications at the University of Oregon. He taught producing at USC's School of Cinematic Arts from 1978 to 2017. In Nov, 2017 he was a visiting professor at the Inst of Cultural & Creative Industry-Jiao Tong U & USC in Shanghai & 2019 taught in Beijing and Nanjing. He has lectured at Kede College, CUC and Yanching Institute of Technology (Beijing) as well as at Zhujiang College (Guangzhou). His doc WOMEN OF THE GULAG (2018) & THE TESTIMONY (2016) were short listed for an Oscar. (2016) VESSEL which he produced, won SXSW both the jury & audience awards. It received the audience award at Hot Docs & the Wintonick Award at Sheffield. Block was Nominated for an Oscar for POSTER GIRL. The IDA selected it as "Best" Doc Short 2011. It was nominated for 2 Emmys - Best Info Program & Best Doc Editing. Aired on HBO.He is exec producer of the Emmy-winning 10 hour PBS series CARRIER - which he conceived & co-created Funded by Mel Gibson. Block is the CEO of THE CARRIER PROJECT. See: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5FCD6DFFBD43415C Block received a BFA & MFA from NYU's, Tisch School a MBA from Columbia Grad School of Business. Block was a producing fellow at the American Film Institute. He's a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Television Academy, the PGA, a founding member of BAFTA-LA, a life member of the U Film & Video Assoc & the Int'l Doc Assoc. Block worked as an acquisitions consultant for HBO (docs) and with Sheila Nevins was an executive producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary BIG MAMA.“No Lies” was selected one of “the best short films ever made” by the critics at Indiewire in 2016. In 2021, it was selected one of the 100 Best Short Films of All Time (#18) By Andres Babiolakis for “Filmsfatale”. It was also selected by the Librarian of Congress for the National Register of Historical Films, as one of the key films in American Film History. (See films of 1973) Other films from 1973 include “American Graffiti”, “The Sting”, “Mean Streets”, “Badlands”, “The Exorcist” and “The Long Goodbye”.