Gene Weingarten

Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. What happens when one of the world's most renowned musicians appears incognito outside of a Washington, D.C. metro station to play some of the most beautiful music ever composed? In the audacious social experiment, "Pearls Before Breakfast", Gene Weingarten seeks out the answer to this question as he chronicles how an audience of rush hour pedestrians pass indifferently by as international wunderkind...

The political murder of a Moscow lawyer, an American father’s tragic mistake and the cancellation of 259 pending U.S. adoptions of Russian orphans are seemingly disparate events found to have an insidious connection in this chilling expose. Winner of a Documentary Prize at the **Nashville Film Festival**. *"Cooper took a ubiquitous topic and told it in an innovative way through both human love and human suffering." - Morena Duwe, **HuffPost***