Filmmaker Richard Kotuk was the recipient of thirteen Emmy® Awards for his documentaries and also earned an Academy Award® nomination for CHILDREN OF DARKNESS (1983). He served as producer, director and writer for CBS News and WCBS-TV. Following five years with CBS News, Kotuk spent eight years producing and directing at WNET/PBS, where he worked on the series "Bill Moyers' Journal" and "The 51ST State". "Rosedale: The Way It Is", his piece about racial conflict in a Northern white working-class community, won the National Brotherhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Kotuk died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 55 in February 1998, shortly after completion of the film TRAVIS (1997), which is about a child's struggle with AIDS.  Nominated for Documentary (Features) 1983: CHILDREN OF DARKNESS - Producer (w. Ara Chekmayan) 1 nomination