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Albert Nerenberg

Introspective Laughologist

Albert Nerenberg is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and Laughologist for CBC radio. His feature documentary Laughology recently played to sell out crowds at the Hot Docs International Film Festival, which was called screamingly funny and the most comprehensive filmed study of laughter ever.

Nerenberg has been traveling the world researching the source and nature of contagious laughter. As well he has developed a contagious laughter health method called Laughercize, which is being used to help rehabilitate drug addicts. Laughercize is now taught by instructors around Canada for general wellness. Nerenberg also developed the Laughter Party and the LaughaSutra, which he says are new ways of integrating more laughter into everyday life.

He recently penned a 10 part series on the Neuroscience of Positivity for the Montreal Gazette. As a filmmaker, he has been the subject of retrospectives at the Cinematheque Quebecoise and the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal.