He has produced narrative and documentary films including Shortbus (2006), World's Greatest Dad (2009), How to Survive a Plague (2012), How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017), Crip Camp (2020), and the Peabody Award-winning[1] documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022).
While at Princeton University, Gertler served as an intern at Good Machine, where he decided to become a producer.
[4] Gertler served as a producer on the narrative films Shortbus and How to Talk to Girls at Parties directed by John Cameron Mitchell.
[5][6] In 2012, Gertler served as a producer on How to Survive a Plague directed by David France, which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
[9] In 2020, Gertler served as an executive producer on Crip Camp directed by James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.