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In 2008 Aronson began production of a series of short films celebrating our dynamic relationship with the Hudson River Valley. The series will be at least 20 shorts designed for interstitial programming on PBS stations. The films focus on individual stories and characters found up and down the Hudson and will build awareness of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s first trip up the Hudson in September of 1609.

In 2007 Aronson began production on The Making of An Artist featuring renowned cellist Paul Katz and his studio of cello students at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Filmed over the course of 2 school years the film will focus on 3 of Katz‘s students as they grow under his tutelage to fulfill their potential as artsts. For completion in 2009 for PBS through WGBH.

In 2006 Aronson completed the much-awaited follow up film to Sound and Fury, Sound and Fury: 6 Years Later.

In 2005 Josh Aronson completed 2 documentaries that were released in 2006. Beautiful Daughters, an hour film about the first all transsexual production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" premiered on LOGO  and BULLRIDER, a feature that looks at bullriding and the rodeo as a metaphor for America today, will continue its festival and theatrical life into 2007. Televiswion broadcast will be announced for 2007.

Josh Aronson was the Co-Producer/Director of The Opposite Sex, 2 feature documentaries broadcast on Showtime and LOGO.

Aronson's Feelin’ No Pain a feature documentary Doo Wop legends Little Anthony, Pookie Hudson, Kenny Vance and the Planotones and other oldies legends is in DVD release.

Aronson's Playing for Real has been repeatedly broadcast on PBS and is now available on DVD through PBS Video.

Josh Aronson was the Director/Executive Producer of Sound and Fury, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was distributed theatrically in 2000 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary.

For Nickelodeon Aronson directed a Family Special, Take a Moment and the dramatic pilot, The Trials of Tammy B.

For Discovery Channel he directed 16 episodes of the series Outward Bound.

For Cinemax he made the John Cafferty Album Flash and he directed the
television documentary, Drawing in Space, about sculptor Mark DiSuvero.

Aronson has directed hundreds of commercials and MTV rock videos. Prior to
working in film, Aronson was a still photographer working as a photo
correspondent for Time/Life and other journals. He is a concert pianist and regularly plays chamber music in New York and at Telluride MusicFest, the chamber music festival he founded with his wife, violinist Maria Bachmann.


Josh Aronson producer/director/writer