truth.media

truth.media is a production company founded by Marc Smerling, with a focus on developing projects that expand how people think of true crime. Smerlings credits include 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. He produced and shot The Jinx - The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, a six-part series about Robert Durst, which aired on HBO in 2015, that received six Primetime Emmys nominations including Best Cinematography and won for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. The Jinx also won a Peabody Award and led to the arrest of Mr. Durst for the murder of his best friend in California. Smerling co-wrote and produced the narrative feature All Good Things (2010) starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst. He produced the Sundance darl...