Allen Estrin
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Allen Estrin is a screenwriter, producer, director, and author. He is a co-founder of PragerU and serves as the executive producer of The Dennis Prager Show.[1][2]
Career
Estrin co-founded the digital media website PragerU, short for "Prager University," alongside Dennis Prager, and is currently the executive producer of The Dennis Prager Show.[1] When Estrin originally conceptualized PragerU, he had planned for it to be a brick-and-mortar university, but later proposed instead that they create short educational videos online.[3] Estrin credits a copyright lawsuit with forcing PragerU videos to stop using photographs,[2] and Jeremy Boreing with helping to develop their current animation style.[4] Estrin represented PragerU at President Donald Trump's "Social Media Summit" in July, 2019.[5][6] He predicts that leftists will eventually create their equivalent of PragerU.[1]
Estrin was a screenwriter for several television shows including:[7][8]
- Boston Public (2002)
- Touched by an Angel (1997-2000)
- The Practice (1997-1999).
He was the writer of Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World,[9] Bare Essentials,[10] and Warm Hearts, Cold Feet. He was also a co-producer for Bare Essentials. Estrin is a lecturer in screenwriting at the American Film Institute. He directed "Israel in a Time of Terror".[11]
Estrin wrote The Hollywood Professionals, Volume 6: Capra, Cukor and Brown,[12] about directors Frank Capra, George Cukor, and Clarence Brown.[13] He also co-wrote the novel Heaven's Witness with Joseph Telushkin.[14][15][16][17]
Other activities
In 2002, Estrin was denied life insurance because he traveled to Israel. Because of this, he sued 14 insurance companies. This led to some insurers changing such policies.[18] and to a bill in California to outlaw such travel restrictions on policies.[19]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Oppenheimer, Mark. "Inside the Right-Wing YouTube Empire That's Quietly Turning Millennials Into Conservatives – Mother Jones". Motherjones.com. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Donnelly, Madaline (2015-11-04). "How Dennis Prager's Online University Reaches Millions". Dailysignal.com. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ↑ Bowles, Nellie (2020-01-04). "Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ↑ Nguyen, Tina (2018-12-09). ""Let Me Make You Famous": How Hollywood Invented Ben Shapiro". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
- ↑ "White House social media summit not a 'one-and-done,' Trump's allies say". The Washington Post. 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
- ↑ Overly, Steven. "Social media gadflies gather for airing of grievances with Trump". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ↑ "Biography | Allen Estrin". The KAIROS Company. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ↑ Posted on March 3, 2018, at 10:01 a.m. ET (2018-03-03). "How PragerU Is Winning The Right-Wing Culture War Without Donald Trump". Buzzfeednews.com. Retrieved 2020-01-14.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998), retrieved 2020-02-11
- ↑ "TV Reviews : Clothing-Thin Plot in 'Bare Essentials'". Los Angeles Times. January 8, 1991.
- ↑ "Israel in a Time of Terror - 7thart Releasing". www.7thart.com.
- ↑ Poague, Leland (1981). "Reviewed work: The Hollywood Professionals Volume 6: Capra, Cukor, Brown, Allen Estrin". Film Criticism. 5 (2): 70–74. JSTOR 44019009.
- ↑ Callenbach, Ernest; Fell, John (1980). "Director Studies". Film Quarterly. 33 (4): 49–51. doi:10.2307/1212019. JSTOR 1212019.
- ↑ "Fiction Book Review: HEAVEN'S WITNESS by Allen Estrin, Author, Joseph Telushkin, Author. (467p) ISBN 978-1-59264-091-1". Publishersweekly.com. 2004-08-16. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
- ↑ "HEAVEN'S WITNESS - KIRKUS REVIEW". Kirkus. 2010-05-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "'Heaven's' Mysterious Spirits". 2004-12-23.
- ↑ "The Year in Books". Washington Examiner. 2004-12-13. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ↑ "Allstate won't blacklist Israel travelers". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 2004-07-02. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ↑ "Panel OKs Bill on Travel Bias in Insurance". Los Angeles Times. 2005-07-07. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
External links
- Allen Estrin on IMDb
Category:American screenwriters Category:American directors Category:American producers Category:Conservative talk radio Category:Living people
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