Mitchell Block

Mitchell W. Block (June 5, 1950 – May 30, 2024) was an American filmmaker, primarily a producer of documentary films. Block was the executive producer of the 2000 short documentary film Big Mama, which won Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 73rd Academy Awards. He produced the 2010 film Poster Girl, which was nominated in the same category at the 83rd Academy Awards. He also produced The Testimony (2015) and executive produced Women of the Gulag (2018), which were shortlisted in the Best Documentary (Short Subject) category at the 88th Academy Awards and the 91st Academy Awards, respectively. In 2022, Block, among Anna Rezan, Kim Magnusson, and Zafeiris Haitidis, produced the feature documentary My People, which premiered to rave reviews in Los Angeles.