In 2010 , Smerling produced and wrote his first narrative feature film '' All Good Things '' , starring Ryan Gosling , Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella , about the suspected murderer and real estate scion Robert Durst . The film was the predecessor to the 2015 HBO documentary miniseries '' The Jinx '' , which Smerling co-wrote and produced with Andrew Jarecki and Zachary Stuart-Pontier . He won the 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Series and was nominated for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming . Smerling and Stuart-Pontier co-created the podcast '' Crimetown '' , which debuted in 2016 and quickly became the most popular U.S. podcast on iTunes . Each season of '' Crimetown '' examines how organized crime shaped an American city , starting with Providence , Rhode Island , in season 1 . They also co-created '' The RFK Tapes '' a Crimetown Presents podcast about the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy Smerling attended S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and has a masters in Film Production from USC
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Marc Smerling