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Joe Lovett
(? - living) U.S.A.

Joe Lovett

Executive Producer

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Joseph Lovett founded Lovett Productions in 1989 after ten years as a producer at ABC News 20/20. Concentrating on health and social issues, the company has produced over 25 hours of prime time television specials in the past fourteen years.

For 2003, other broadcasts include Fat Like Me, on childhood obesity for ABC airing in October, Coming Home, on forgiveness for the Hallmark Channel airing Thanksgiving week. Three Sisters, a film on a family dealing with ALS is to be shown on HBO in the spring of 2004. His latest feature (Gay) Sex in the 70’s explores the twelve years between the Stonewall Riots in June 1969 and the June 1981 article suggesting that a deadly epidemic targeted gay men.

As a producer for ABC's 20/20 in the 1980's, Joe produced the first in-depth AIDS investigations for national television. Later, as an independent, he produced and directed In A New Light, an annual broadcast of AIDS education and outreach specials using Hollywood celebrities in performance to showcase the real stories of people dealing with different aspects of the AIDS epidemic. In a New Light, aired annually for five years on ABC. In 1999, The AIDS Action Foundation recognized his work with the AIDS Leadership Award.

The Accident, Joe's first personal feature documentary, is a startling perspective on love and loss in a family memoir shot over twenty-five years. The Accident toured the international festival circuit to sold out audiences. Joe wrote, produced and directed.

Joe wrote, directed and produced Cancer: Evolution to Revolution, an HBO film about what people with cancer need to know to maximize their chances of survival. The film has been honored with The Peabody Award, The Christopher Award, an Emmy nomination, as well as with numerous awards from cancer advocacy organizations.

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