Les Guthman

Les Guthman is an American director, writer and production executive, who has the distinction of both having produced three of the 20 Top Adventure Films of All Time, according to Men’s Journal magazine, and having won the National Academy of Science’s (U.S) nationwide competition to find the best new idea in science television, which led to his film, Three Nights at the Keck, hosted by actor John Lithgow.

He is currently producer, director and writer of the Advanced LIGO Documentary Project, a three-year collaboration with Caltech and MIT in 4K digital video about the Advanced LIGO worldwide scientific collaboration, funded by the National Science Foundation. The Advanced LIGO Documentary Project was formed in the summer of 2015 to document the Advanced LIGO search for gravitational waves, both to film a longitudinal record of the project for history and to make a documentary of the LIGO project's then-expected detection of the first gravitational waves.

On September 14, 2015, Guthman and his Advanced LIGO Documentary Project team were on location filming at the LIGO Livingston Observatory when the historic detection was made. Over the next five months, he had exclusive film access to document the long, careful process of scientific verification that was conducted by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration to confirm that the received signal was in fact a gravitational wave, as predicted by [Albert Einstein] more than 100 years ago.

Production on the documentary continues and in June 2016, he produced the two LIGO programs at the World Science Festival in New York, including the main stage Saturday night panel moderated by physicist and best-selling author Brian Greene, featuring five of the key physicists behind the historic detection and four short videos from the Advanced LIGO Documentary Project's exclusive footage inside the discovery. In February 2017, he released the first video produced under the NSF grant, "Mirrors That Hang by Glass Threads."

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