Gerard Thomas Straub, OFS

Gerard Thomas Straub, OFS, is a documentary filmmaker and the founder and president of Pax et Bonum Communications, which produces films on the plight of the poor. He has written and directed 22 documentary films in some of the poorest places in the world, among them India, Kenya, Uganda, Haiti, Brazil, Peru, El Salvador, Mexico and the Philippines.

Before that he had a long career as a network television producer and executive in New York and Hollywood, producing dramatic series for CBS, NBC and ABC. An award-winning author, he has also taught television writing and directing at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and has spoken at more than 230 churches, schools and universities.