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Thom Powers is a director, writer and co-owner of Sugar Pictures in New York City. His work has appeared on HBO, Cinemax, PBS and the Sundance Channel. He previously directed Private Dicks: Men Exposed (HBO) and produced Breasts (Cinemax), both made in collaboration with Meema Spadola. Powers attended high school in Detroit, Michigan, where escalating homicide rates initiated his interest in gun issues. One of his former classmates, John Walter, is the editor of GUNS & MOTHERS. He is currently writing a book about the past 40 years of documentaries in America called Stranger Than Fiction for Faber & Faber.