Ron Deutsch

Ron Deutsch has been a concert sound engineer for bands ranging from the Grateful Dead to the Dead Kennedys. He has worked as a production assistant for documentary filmmakers David and Albert Maysles, and as a story analyst with clients including director James Cameron and the Showtime Network, as well as selling several of his own screen and teleplays. His journalistic work has appeared in print and online periodicals including National Geographic, the Austin American-Statesman, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Gramophone, and Wired News, and his fiction has been twice featured in the Mississippi Review. He is a former contributing editor to Sonicnet/MTV News, and has lectured on film genre theory and story analysis at writers' conventions around the country. A collection of quotes he edited, "Inspirational Hollywood," was chosen as a Writer's Digest Book Club Selection in 1999. On the Internet, Mr. Deutsch developed and produced content in the late 1990's for companies including Excite, Infoseek, and Reel.com. His web design work was featured in Art in America magazine and he co-produced the 1st Internet Animation Festival for Digital City/AOL in 1995. Mr. Deutsch's short documentary, Blueberry Thrill was shown on Maine PBS, his next documentary Sometimes I Feel Like a Found Object premiered at the Dallas Video Festival in 2003, and his camera work has been featured in a CBS' 60 Minutes segment. The Big Buy, a 2006 documentary on Texas Prosecutor Ronnie Earle and Congressman Tom Delay, which Mr. Deutsch handled 2nd camera chores and was associate producer of, is distributed by Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films. In 2011, he co-wrote OK Buckaroos, a documentary on singer/songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker. He regularly teaches cooking classes paired with films as "Chef du Cinema" which he also chronicles on his blog and for the Criterion Collection website. He is associate producing the documentary Record Man, about the birth of the post-war record industry, and is featured in the documentary Echotone, about how growth & gentrification have affected Austin's music community. He is a continuing editor to IDA's Documentary magazine and lives in Austin, Texas with his trusty cat Miles.