This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am speaking with Emmy Winning Producer Dan Watt, whose Emmy Winning documentary EVERYBODY DANCE is a heartfelt trip inside the everyday challenges and blessings of kids living with neurological disabilities, following 5 kids, their families and dance teacher on a journey through life and toward their dance recital.
After 10 years of working for Columbia Pictures and Simon Cowell, at 45-years-old, Dan Watt left his corporate job and jumped into entrepreneurship, starting his own independent production company, DancinDan Productions.
In this NEW interview, Dan is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about:
- How he went from Performer to Independent Producer
- Why he gave up corporate life for the unknown world of entrepreneurship
- The lessons he has learned from being an entrepreneur
- Why he wanted EVERYBODY DANCE to be his first documentary
- How he go to be Bea Arthur’s personal assistant (Dorothy from The Golden Girls)
- So much more
EVERYBODY DANCE won a 2024 Emmy Award in the Independent Programming category at the 76th Annual Emmy Awards.
EVERYBODY DANCE is available to watch on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Tubi.
Click here to watch this interview in video format!
Special Thanks:
- Theme Song by Bobby Cronin
- Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell
- Edited by Adam Rothenberg
- Underscore Music by Cutique
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More on Dan Watt:
Dan Watt is the 2024 Emmy Award Winning Producer & Director of the documentary EVERYBODY DANCE.
Dan worked for 5 years at Columbia Pictures in the film development department on such films as HOUSE BUNNY with Anna Farris and Just Go With It with Jenifer Aniston and Adam Sandler. Dan then went on to work with Simon Cowell for 5 years starting with the documentary film about the band ONE DIRECTION titled THIS IS US.
Prior to Dan’s film career he produced Gala Fundraisers with Bea Arthur, Chita Rivera, Dixie Carter, Carol Channing and Melissa Manchester. Dan also produced Tony Nominee, Anika Larsen’s debut cd SING ME TO SLEEP and songs with Ben Vereen.
He is currently in production on an “untitled” documentary with Tony and Pulitzer Prizer wining producer Daryl Roth and a documentary with Rosie O’Donnell.
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