Abe Gurko, Creative Producer, Opinionator
When Abe Gurko packed his bags and moved from New York City to Hollywood, he wasn’t leaving a career in the fashion industry to chase the usual dream of becoming a movie star. “I wanted to be a mechanic to the machine called celebrity,” he said. “I wanted to know how it worked.” Over the next
few years, he developed his skills as a behind-the-scenes creative force by working on a couple of daily variety-talk shows and worked for several years with arguably the coolest woman in Hollywood, Carrie Fisher. There, he acquired an intimate knowledge of the entertainment industry or as he says, “I was like Alice careening through the Looking Glass, Mad Hatter and all.”
Abe has also produced countless high–profile events under his own moniker for years. With a sensibility honed within the inner circles of New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Reykjavik, he has produced film premieres, fashion shows, music videos, photo shoots, product launches, and even races
in Central Park. His fundraising activities have helped raise millions of dollars for AIDS and other charities as well as theatrical productions and documentaries.
Abe is in production of two documentaries:
1) WON’T BE SILENT about the women of protest music with Selena Gomez & Stacey Abrams.
2) WOLF’S SONG about a piece of music written in a concentration camp as a song of resistance to the Nazis by his uncle Wolf, who was killed hours before the liberation.
