Paulist Productions is an Emmy Award-winning creator of films and television programs that uncover God’s presence in the contemporary human experience.  The firm’s work challenges viewers to love others and to liberate one another from all that is dehumanizing.

In this interview, Fr. Tom Gibbons speaks about being a priest with a full-time job as a film producer and how he balances that with continuing to celebrate the Sacraments.

Paulist Fr. Elwood “Bud” Keiser (1929 – 2000) founded Paulist Productions in the 1960s.  It has won five Emmy Awards, the Humanitas Award, the Christopher Award and five Gabriel Awards.

Notable productions include the theatrical releases ” Romero ,” starring Raul Julia; ” Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story ,” starring Moira Kelly and Martin Sheen; and the made-for-TV movies ” Judas ” and ” The Lost Valentine ” starring Betty White.

Fr. Kieser was interviewed in 1999 for PBS’s “Religion & Ethics Newsweekly” about Hollywood’s responsibility for violence in society. “The ultimate responsibility is with the people buying those tickets and with the parents of the kids who are given the money to buy those tickets,” he said.  Read a transcript of the interview on pbs.org.

“Insight” was Paulist Productions’ landmark anthology television series that aired nationally in syndication from 1960 to 1983.  Called the “experimental theater of Hollywood television,” it was created, produced and hosted by Fr. Kieser and featured the work of Hollywood artists such as Martin Sheen, William Shatner, Jack Klugman, Rod Serling, Ida Lupino, Bob Newhart, Patty Duke, Carol Burnett, William Peter Blatty and Michael Crichton.