the music special, Bowfire for PBS (2008), One x One Gala (2007) for CTV and Caesar and Cleopatra (2009) for Bravo and CTV. Other films have chronicled defense attorney Edward Greenspan and the Rolling Stones promoter Michael Cohl, Winston Churchill, and David Steinberg. His 2010 film Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project was sold to IFC's Sundance Now channel in February 2011. In 2017, Avrich announced plans for a docu-series on American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, however he decided to scrap the project after Epsteins suicide in August, 2019, claiming the topic to be "too distasteful". In 2018, Avrich directed and produced, The Reckoning, the first "#metoo documentary on Harvey Weinstein that premiered at Hot Docs Film Festival and was sold to CBC and Hulu. In 2018, Avrich produced and directed an acclaimed and award winning documentary Prosecuting Evil on Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz that was sold to Netflix. In 2019, Avrich directed and produced Off The Record, a biography on Grammy award winning producer and composer David Foster for Crave and Netflix which premiered at TIFF. In 2020, Avrich produced Made You Look, a documentary about the infamous Knoedler Gallery art fraud scandal that was sold to Netflix. In 2021, Avrich directed and produced Oscar Peterson: Black + White, a docu-concert on jazz icon Oscar Peterson that had its world premiere at TIFF on September 12, 2021. In 2022, Avrich began production on three new documentaries; Without Precedent (on Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella), Sacrilege (narrated by Brian Cox) and The Palm Beach Diaries. The Last Mogul (2005) is probably Avrich's best known film to date. The Variety critic Robert Koehler said of the documentary about Lew Wasserman, it "draws a full and balanced measure of the man, from his stratospheric rise to a remarkably humbling fall, and includes as thorough a study of the super-agent-turned-mogul's shady ties with organized crime as any feature docu could hope to muster." Awards and Controversy In April 2022, Avrich received a Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Program for Oscar Peterson: Black + White. When called up to the mic to make an acceptance speech, his remarks ended with the following statement: "There are so many Black stories in Canada that need to be told. It doesn't matter who tells them, we just need to tell 'em." At least 11 Canadian film-sector organizations issued prompt statements condemning these remarks, including