Les Guthman is a film director and producer, who has the distinction of both having won the National Academy of Science’s (U.S) nationwide competition to find the best new idea in science television and having produced three of the 20 Top Adventure DVDs of All Time,www.prweb.com/releases/2005/11/prweb307443.htm according to Men’s Journal magazine.

As founding Executive Vice President and Executive Producer of Outside Television,[1] he produced 33 prime time expedition, adventure and environmental documentaries, including Michael Brown’s Farther Than the Eye Can See, which was nominated for two Emmy Awards in 2004,www.emmyonline.org/emmy/sports25th_noms_b.html the awards for Best Sports Documentary and Best Sports Cinematography. Farther Than the Eye Can See,[2] the film of blind climber Erik Weihenmayer’s renowned ascent of Everest, won 18 international film festival awards.www.fartherthantheeyecansee.com/awards.htm Altogether, there have been 193 film festival screenings of Guthman’s films since 2002.