During his 20-year career, Stuart Calcote has produced and directed over 3000 hours of broadcast television and has been honored with dozens of film and television awards including 29 Emmys. As one of the first Americans in the world with extensive HDTV production and broadcast experience, Calcote produced and directed the first ever HDTV field documentary in 1993 (The Strongest Link) capturing seven international film and television awards. Calcote is co-founder of Harbor Light Entertainment, a motion picture development/production company in Hollywood. Calcote negotiated and secured the rights to remake Akira Kurosawa's classic, Rashomon, now in development with Paramount Pictures staring Morgan Freeman. Calcote is Executive Producer of the film. Calcote is also President of Electronic Pictures Corporation in Hollywood (dba HD Pictures), an HDTV production company. Between 1992 - 1997, Calcote was Executive Producer and Director of International Programs for NHK, Japan's public broadcasting system. Fluent in Japanese, Calcote has the honor of being the only foreign national (non-Japanese) ever to have held a senior staff position with NHK in its 75-year history. Prior to joining NHK, Calcote produced and directed a wide variety of programs for NBC, United Artists Productions and WDCA-TV in Washington, DC. Resumé