Kary Antholis

Kary Antholis is an executive at the American television network HBO who has overseen some of its groundbreaking socially-conscious programming. He is also an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker.

Antholis grew up in Florham Park, New Jersey. He is a 1984 graduate of Bowdoin College, earned a Master's Degree in History at Stanford University with a focus on the historical role European nations in Africa and graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1989. [Wilson, David McKay. [http://www.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinmagazine/archives/features/000060.shtml "Making Masterpieces"] , "Bowdoin Magazine", Spring 2004. Accessed August 27, 2008.]

As an executive he has been responsible for Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning projects, both dramatic and documentary, including Angels in America, The Corner, Wit (film), The Gathering Storm (2002), From the Earth to the Moon (HBO) and Educating Peter.

As a filmmaker he won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject (1995) and the Emmy for Outstanding Information Special (1994-95) for his film One Survivor Remembers about Holocaust survivor, Gerda Weissmann Klein. Exploring Gerda's story offered him an extraordinarily vivid connection to his own mother's experiences during the war. Antholis' mother Evanthia grew up in Nazi-occupied Greece during World War II. Weissmann's story helped Antholis understand what his mother went through when her father, Vassilios, was killed by Nazi collaborators [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:otgGtt84xC4J:www.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinmagazine/archives/features/000060.shtml+Kary+Antholis+greek&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1] . In 2005, the film was offered by the Southern Poverty Law Center as part of a Teaching Tolerance curriculum for high school teachers to teach their students about the realities of the Holocaust.

Antholis is currently Senior Vice President for Miniseries at HBO.