Director Dan Klores’ documentary, “Black Magic,” has met with the highest critical acclaim and honor, the 2008 George Foster Peabody Award “recognizing distinguished achievement and meritorious service.” The four-hour, two-part epic that aired commercial-free on ESPN, “Black Magic” tells the story of the injustice that defines the Civil Rights Movement, told through the lives of basketball players and coaches who attended Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The 2008 Diversity Awards honored the film as its “Best Documentary Feature, Non Theatrical Release” and the 2008 NAACP Image Awards nominated the film for “Outstanding Documentary.” The New York Times called “Black Magic” “remarkable.” The Washington Post said, “It engages the senses,” and The Charlotte News and Observer wrote, “’Black Magic’ is mesmerizing, harrowing and uplifting.”

Mr. Klores’ most recent documentary, “Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The Knicks,” will premiere at Sundance 2010 – his fourth film to receive it’s premiere at the renowned festival in the last seven years. “Winning Time” will air on ESPN in March 2010.

Klores’ vision and directorial achievement was previously recognized when he received the esteemed 2008 Independent Spirit Award for “Crazy Love,” a true tale of obsession and love, based on a relationship between a married man and a beautiful single woman in New York City.

Mr. Klores’ work has been universally lauded for its depth and passion. Ty Burr, critic from the Boston Globe, said “Klores…has emerged over the past few years as a documentarian of a distinctly New York tang. He makes barstool tales, the sort Joseph Mitchell or Damon Runyon might have leaned in to hear." In the New Yorker review of “Crazy Love” David Denby said, “Dan Klores’ documentary is a real-world story, as redolent of time and place as a song by Dion and The Belmonts, in which possessiveness, stupidity, loyalty, and need are joined together in bewildering combinations. It’s as if some disreputable and unending liaison out of the Greek myths arose on the streets of the East Bronx.”

“Crazy Love” was also voted Best Documentary by the Boston Society of Film Critics and the San Diego Film Critics Society. The film was nominated by the International Documentary Association (IDA) for Best Documentary and claimed first prize at The Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Like Klores’ first two films, “The Boys of Second Street Park” (Showtime, 2003) and “Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story” (NBC-Universal, 2005), “Crazy Love” made its world premiere at Sundance.

The surface, though, never tells the full story. Klores’ first film, “The Boys of Second Street Park” (Best Documentary at the River Run Film Festival), may seem to be a story of baby boomer pals in Brooklyn seeking refuge on the basketball court. In the end though, it tells a much larger story of a generation immersed in the counterculture and unable to see and feel the limitations such adherence brought.

“Viva Baseball” (Spike TV, 2005), a beautifully told story about the struggles of Latino immigrants and exiles coming to this country to escape and play a beloved game, finds us in a bitter and never-ending fight against a triple form of discrimination: skin color, language and culture. The film was awarded the Imagen Award for Best Documentary for Television and Film, as well as the 2006 BANFF World Television Award for Best Sports Program.

Mr. Klores’ theater pursuits include his full-length play, “Little Doc,” which deals with the nature of broken relationships, and will be produced as part of Rattlestick Theater Company’s 2010-2011 Season. “Little Doc” will open in June 2010 and will be directed by John Gould Rubin. Klores’ first play, a one-act, “Myrtle Beach,” an anti-war piece, debuted at The Duke Theater in April 2007, as part of Naked Angels Theater Company. Variety called it, “A poetic and unsettling mediation that erupts into keening for the innocent man who was destroyed. The force of its imagery almost terrifies.”

Mr. Klores, who resides in Manhattan with his wife Abbe and three young sons, is also producing the feature re-make of “Ring of Fire” with Scott Rudin and George C. Wolfe. Klores is in the midst of writing the feature remake for “Crazy Love.” He previously served as the Executive Producer of “City by the Sea,” starring Robert DeNiro and Frances McDormand and also as a producer for the Paul Simon Broadway musical, “The Capeman.”