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Carl Kurlander is a producer and writer, known for St. Elmo's Fire - Die Leidenschaft brennt tief (1985), Malibu, CA (1998) and Cardinal Matter (2016).
He has been a visiting senior lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh in the Film Studies department since 2001. He is a co-founder of the Steeltown Entertainment Project. Carl first came to Hollywood as an MCA-Universal Studio Scholar as part of an internship he won while attending Duke University where he had written a short story called "St. Elmo's Fire" about a girl he had an infatuation with while working as a bellhop at the St. Elmo Hotel which eventually inspire the movie he would write with director Joel Schumacher. Having moved back to his hometown to teach at the University of Pittsburgh for what he thought would be a one year Hollywood sabbatical, Kurlander's journey back home led to an appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show", a feature documentary, "My Tale of Two Cities", and the creation of the Steeltown Entertainment Project, a non-profit which has helped Pittsburgh become more of player in the entertainment industry. While teaching at the University of Pittsburgh, Kurlander ended up filming the 50th anniversary celebration of the first polio vaccine, which led to the production of "The Shot Felt Round The World" which tells the story of how Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh pulled together with a nation to help conquer the most feared disease of the twentieth century.