Greg Reitman

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Greg Reitman (May 10, 1971) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, executive producer, national best selling author, public speaker and founder of Blue Water Film Institute, Blue Water Film Festival,^[1][2] and Blue Water Summit. He is best known for directing, producing and writing films Hollywood’s Magical Island- Catalina (2003), Fuel (2008), Rooted in Peace (2016), and Crypto (2019). Widely regarded as Hollywood’s “Green Filmmaker” Movie Maker Magazine describes him as “one of the top ten filmmakers producing content that impacts our world.” He is the founder of Blue Water Entertainment, Inc. (2000) an independent production company focusing on environmentally conscious broad based entertainment.

Reitman's first feature film, 'Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina,^[3] Reitman produced with Mike Fenton and narrated by Peter Coyote debuted at the 2003 Temecula Film Festival and was the recipient of the Audience Award. The documentary was released nationally through American Public Television (APT) to PBS. It aired as a pledge show in 2004 with Reitman and talents Tony Dow and Kathleen Quinlan on KOCE and in 2010 on KCET with Reitman, actor Tony Dow and co-producer Chuck Liddell. In 2023, Blue Water Entertainment re-released the film in the Avalon Theatre as a 20th Anniversary special with Reitman and actors Gregory Harrison, and Kathleen Quinlan where it plays throughout the year on Catalina Island.

His second feature film, Fuel,^[4] generated great buzz after it premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival winning the Sundance Audience Award for Best Documentary, was released theatrically in the United States and became a global sensation gaining over 1 million viewers on Netflix, iTunes, Hulu and CNBC. The movie was screened in the White House for energy and environment staff working in the Obama Administration.

His third feature film, Rooted in Peace,^[5] in 2016 debut at the United Nations, won the New York Festival Best Feature Documentary, Impact Award for Excellence, released theatrically, and subsequently streams on Amazon Prime, and Itunes. The film features Deepak Chopra, Donovan, Mike Love, David Lynch, Greg Reitman, Pete Seeger, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.^[6] His fourth feature film, Crypto, starring Kurt Russell, Reitman served as an Executive Producer with Siena Oberman. In 2019 it was released theatrically by Lions Gate, Film Mode International, and streams on Hulu.

Reitman earned his Bachelor of Arts from University of Massachusetts Amherst (1993)^[7] and holds a certificate in Film & Television, Marketing & Distribution from UCLA.^[8] He received a master certificate in Creative Producing from Tel Aviv University, and has studied at Hokkaido University in Japan and the University of Florence in Italy.^[9] In 2019, Reitman became an adjunct professor at NYU-Tisch teaching the essentials of marketing and distribution.

In 2004, Greg Reitman self published the mini coffee table book Hollywood’s Magical Island - Catalina. In 2016, after the movie Rooted in Peace was released and garnered worldwide attention, publisher Llewellyn Publications published his work, Rooted in Peace: An Inspiring Story of Finding Peace.^[10] In 2017, Reitman became a national best selling author winning: Best Spiritual Author (Spirituality & Health Magazine); Best Spiritual Real-Life Story (Spirituality & Health Magazine); & Best Memoir. In 2018, Brilliance Publishing, an Amazon company released the audiobook narrated by Reitman.

In 2008 after producing the acclaimed documentary Fuel, Reitman was asked to chronicle climate change and the movement as a journalist first for The Environmentalist and then The Huffington Post. His environmental articles published include Chasing Ice - The Climate Debate Is Over;^[11] UN Launches Year of the Int’l Forest; Is Climate Change Reversible? Can Regenerative Agriculture Farming Solve the Climate Crisis?^[12]; “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”; Investigates the Making And Unraveling of a Radical Environmental Group; “Ode to Peace” to Resound Around the World on International Day of Peace;^[13] The Climate War Comes to Australia: The Great Barrier Reef; The man behind Earth Day Texas Trammel S Crow leads the nation honoring the 45th Anniversary of Earth Day; Your Brain on Ocean: Neuroscience and Ocean Exploration; Global Green kicks off Oscar Week with Singer/Songwriter Stevie Wonder; and Madécasse Chocolate Raises the Bar this Earth Day in providing Money for Madagascar Disaster Relief.^[14]

In 2014 Reitman was a speaker at the Aspen Renewable Energy Summit.^[15]

In 2020, Greg Reitman founded the Blue Water Institute, a non-profit conservation organization.

Reitman founded the Blue Water Film Festival, an annual event curating ocean, water, nature content in either short, narrative, documentary and animated formats hosted in San Diego, CA.^[16] The festival concludes with the Blue Water Awards.

• Hollywood Isle: Catalina Island Picture Book (2003, Post Card USA, ISBN 978-0-61513-444-4)
• Rooted in Peace: An Inspiring Story of Finding Peace Within (2018, Blue Water Publishing, USA, ISBN 978-0-9769566-4-8)

• Official website
• Blue Water Entertainment
• Greg Reitman at IMDb