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Jyllian Gunther

1. WHO'S YOUR DADDY? Documentary short featured in the Jigsaw/New Yorker/Amazon series, "The New Yorker Presents." (rt:6min) Meet the proud father of the Times Square fixture the Naked Cowboy! 2. THE NEW PUBLIC Documentary feature, award-winning, critically acclaimed. 1st aired on PBS, distributed by Kino Lorber. (rt:88min) Can a former D.J. and point guard turned principal open a small, public high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, solve the problems of urban education? The film follows a small team of idealistic educators and their students and parents over four years, from opening day through their first graduation. From the small victories to often crushing defeats we witness happens when the magic of optimism, an unconventional approach and the hope of a new beginning are met by long-standing realities way bigger than school.