Michael Hurtig

Michael Eric Hurtig is a New York based film director and producer. He launched FLX Entertainment in 2017 to create media that educates and challenges audiences' imaginations. Michael has a varied background in film and new media, having developed and produced short and long form projects for television, streaming and VR. He is the director and producer of Fast-Forward: Look Into Your Future (PBS, 2021), which broadcast Nationally on PBS in March of 2021. Fast-Forward uses a mix of immersive physical and psychological experiences to send families 30 years into their futures, in order to have them evaluate their attitudes and readiness related to aging. Narrated by Rosario Dawson with an original song by Andrew Bird. He has presented and spoken on panels in classrooms and at conferences around the country and contributed to research in the future of media distribution and education. Beyond FLX Entertainment, Michael was part of the producing team that brought the feature film 'Sacred' to PBS in 2018; a global documentary on the daily use of faith and spiritual practice in over 40 countries. His work has appeared in documentaries and news programming on Public Television (Pioneers of Thirteen, PBS Newshour, Metrofocus). He is a Slifka Fellow at the Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Public Policy and Education at Fordham University, and is the Managing Director of The Coterie, a music theater company based in New York City.