Welcome! There is no more important cause than sharing and educating others on the significance of meditation, preserving our environment, and how each of us can make a difference in the world we live in.
Greg Reitman
American Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter, National Best-Selling Author & Founder of the Blue Water Institute and Blue Water Film Festival.
Greg Reitman is an American filmmaker, festival producer, marketing and distribution expert, national bestselling author, and Founder of the Blue Water Institute and Blue Water Film Festival. He has been described by MovieMaker Magazine as “one of the top ten filmmakers producing content that impacts our world.”
Through Blue Water Entertainment, Inc., Reitman produces compelling fiction, non-fiction & corporate edutainment addressing global issues including politics, social justice, poverty, spirituality, and environmental stewardship. His work has been released theatrically and digitally via Landmark Theatres, Lionsgate, Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, Gaia, ZDF, ARTE, and PBS. Notable titles include 5 Pounds, Crypto, Bastards of Soul, The Cuban Bus, Rooted in Peace, Fuel, and Hollywood’s Magical Island: Catalina.
Greg is regarded as a high level speaker and panelist on production, film marketing, distribution, finance, and social-impact storytelling, with appearances at the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, United Nations, UNOPS, Aspen Renewable Energy Summit, Columbia University, UCLA, UC San Diego, NYU-Tisch, Boston University, Fordham University, Oracle Corporation, NAB, SMPTE, and more.
He is an award-winning author, receiving Best Spiritual Author, Best Spiritual Real-Life Story (Spirituality & Health Magazine), and Best Memoir (Living Now Book Awards) for Rooted in Peace: An Inspiring Story of Finding Peace (Llewellyn Publications), with the audiobook released by Brilliance Publishing (Amazon).
Greg has also conducted and moderated high-level interviews with leaders across government, intelligence, sustainability, innovation, and spiritual thought, including General Wesley Clark, James Woolsey (former CIA Director), Donald Rumsfeld (former U.S. Secretary of Defense), William McDonough, Paul Hawken, Deepak Chopra, President José María Figueres of Costa Rica, and Jean Oelwang, Founding CEO of Virgin Unite, to name a few.
Greg received a BA, History — University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as a MA, Creative Producing — UCLA (Writing, Directing, Marketing & Distribution). He is an active member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA), Explorers Club, International Marketing Association (IMA), San Diego Underwater Photographic Society, and a fellow Professor at NYU-Tisch teaching Film Marketing & Distribution.
Greg Reitman resides in Del Mar, California, where he continues to work at the intersection of film, sustainability, marketing, and global impact.
Throughout the years people have been asking for me to update my personal website allowing fans to follow my journey into Hollywood as a green filmmaker. The time as arrived and starting today fans will be able to follow me as we Green Hollywood and allow creativity, and consciousness based entertainment to take root into Hollywood.
What began for me 15 years ago purchasing my Catalina Kelp Forest book at the Malibu Dive Shop and then meeting my two filmmakers Tommy Bluemer (Producer) and Bill Totolo (Director Photography) up at UCLA Film School changed the course of my life. It led me on a journey of writing, producing, & directing my first feature documentary film on Catalina Island. Subsequently, filmmaking is now a full time passion and more importantly a career of creating movies that uplift humanity. Winning the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival for FIELDS OF FUEL now FUEL opened my eyes to how films with intention for social action can move the masses to a higher state of consciousness. My new feature documentary film, ROOTED in PEACE serves the same purpose in helping all of us wake up to a world worth living. I’m looking forward to sharing with you the next ten years of building a slate of motion pictures with that same intention; making content that transforms our world.
In the website you’ll find rare photos, videos, interviews, music, updates on my film projects, as well as the most current projects that I’m taking on.
There is no doubt how fortunate I am to do the work I do. But the biggest enjoyment comes from people who experience a Blue Water Entertainment film and find a pathway to their happiness.
I hope you enjoy the site.
Namaste,
Greg Reitman
