Discover Top Non-Fiction Film Directors in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Bertrand Guez is a Washington DC-based documentary and commercial DP and video editor. His work includes docs, news, branding & corporate, music content. He collaborates with international networks like AL JAZEERA , BBC, CBC, FRANCE 24, ARTE,FRANCE TELEVISIONS. His work on corporate and branded content include major companies like SPOTIFY, LEDGER, ORANO, CITELUM-EDF. His work on music content includes filming acclaimed artists like Phoenix, Sofiane Pamart, Local Natives, Bartees Strange, Foreign Air, ALL THINGS GO music festival and can be seen all over the main digital platforms, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. His years of experience as correspondent journalist-cameraman for French TV got him to travel all over America to cover historic political and cultural events like Haiti's earthquake, the 2010 BP oil spill in the Golf of Mexico, the 2014 Soccer World Cup in Brazil, Fidel Castro's death in Cuba, and US Presidential Elections in 2012, 2016 and 2020.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Drone Operator
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Event Photographer
• Fixer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Commercial DP
• Digital Content Creator
• Social Media Producer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Art Director

www.nickzachar.com sanctuaries.noaa.gov/stories Nick Zachar is a multimedia producer and filmmaker currently working for NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries as their Video Producer/Diver. In his current role he has the opportunity to find and share stories about America’s underwater treasures and, more importantly, the people who dedicate their lives to taking care of these special places. Alongside his team, he is currently directing, shooting, and editing virtual reality films that will allow viewers to Explore the Blue without having to get wet. Previously, Nick was a Producer/Editor for National Geographic's Digital Team. Nick's background as a biologist has taken him to the Caribbean, where he traveled with a team to aid efforts in the conservation of a critically endangered species of iguana. During Nick's career he has had the opportunity to repel into crevasses of glaciers, film aerial footage from helicopters, and swim alongside sea turtles and sharks, all in order to "get the shot". Nick specializes in field production and strives to find and share meaningful stories that shed light on environmental and wildlife issues.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Production Company
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Non-Fiction Film Director

I’m Andy Kelemen, a branded content + commercial director with a specialty in making unusual work. I describe my style as playful and approachable, and I love over-the-top visuals with bold looks. I got my start filming behind the scenes content for Troma Entertainment with Lloyd Kaufman, after which I spent five years at one of the largest political ad agencies in the country, producing and directing national campaigns. I then went full-time as a director, starting a production company in the process. My work has been aired nationally, created millions of social media impressions, and I’ve picked up seven Emmy awards along the way for my documentary work for PBS. In directing content, I’m proud of the work I create, and my ability push the envelope (and push clients) when needed. While it’s tough to brag about personality traits, I’m consistently described as being easy to work with, and a fantastic collaborator. And let’s be honest, when you work on a commercial project - you spend a ton of time together.

• Executive Producer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Full-Service Live Production
• Production Company
• Fixer
• Social Media Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Art Director
• Post-Production Manager
• Product Photographer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Senior Editor
• Documentary DP
• Copywriter

Over the last two decades, Douglas has shot on six continents and in over 40 countries on productions ranging from television series to commercials, narrative features to documentaries. Network clients include: Discovery, National Geographic, Travel, HGTV, Animal Planet, A&E, History, ABC, PBS (and many more) resulting in over 100 hours of programming. Corporate and non-profit clients include: T-Mobile, Morgan Stanley, Dress for Success and Greenpeace, among others. As for features, he was Director of Photography for An Affair of the Heart, following rock icon Rick Springfield and his unusually devout fans (Winner Best of Fest, Toronto HotDocs and released on EPIX). and Tanzania, A Journey Within (Winner Best World Documentary, Soho International Film Festival). He also has produced and shot multiple web series including creating the Telly Award winning POV - The Way I See It for Travel Channel.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Field Producer

Warner Hanson Television (WHTV) is a Washington DC based production company dedicated to creating high quality work in film, television and digital media. Our award-winning productions are artful and engaging as well as smart and genuine. WHTV was founded in 1999. WHTV is a creative team of visionaries and artists who are exceptional storytellers, screenwriters, directors, photographers, editors, graphic designers, and developers. WHTV creates and produces film & television programs on the subjects of natural history, culinary arts, travel, sports, and the environment for major television networks and independent collectives. WE HAVE FILMED in some of world's most remote regions and apply a variety of visual techniques from aerial cinematography and underwater exploration to POV cameras and film-style production values. OUR WORK INCLUDES documentary, lifestyle, sports, news, and reality programming that airs on PBS, BBC, A&E, Discovery, and ESPN. Footage from the WHTV film library appears on CSI, The West Wing, Grey’s Anatomy, and other theatrical releases. National Geographic and the Discovery Networks integrate WHTV’s documentary footage as well. WHTV PRODUCES television programs for non-broadcast clients that include: The Nature Conservancy, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Cancer Institute, Children’s National Medical Center, NIH, Iceland Naturally, Salmon de Chile, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and others.

• Production Company
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Production Assistant

Chris Warner is Director and President of Warner Hanson Television (WHTV). He oversees series development, field & post-production, and the technical aspects of the company. Prior to co-founding WHTV, he directed and produced documentaries and news features for PBS, A&E, ESPN, CBS, CNN, and others. Before moving to Washington, DC in 1992 he spent time in New York City as an independent filmmaker working at Global Village and The New School. Prior to that, he produced features for CNN in Atlanta and news stories for the CBS affiliate in Seattle. Chris has won numerous awards for his work in film and television. He has been recognized by his peers for excellence in production over the years and currently serves as a jury chairman for the Cine Golden Eagle Awards. He also judges for the Emmy Awards at the request of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Chris has a joint B.A. in English and Government with a minor in Fine Arts from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He did post-graduate work at The New School’s graduate film program in New York, NY.

• Documentary DP
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant

Innovative, seasoned Producer with 20 years of crafting compelling stories, journalistic interviewing, spearheading creative teams, and operational management. Special skills include working with PM, Princes, Children, Animals, Insects, and Robots. The genres in which he has experience include scripted non-fiction, fiction, documentary, reality, live news, educational, exploration, adventure, archaeology, natural history, wild animal, oceanography, aero and Astro science, meteorology, quantum science, travel, geology, game competition, sports, craft, build, renovation, food, lifestyle, fitness, brand, corporate, commercial, social media, experimentation, and investigation. Networks, media, and clients include: NASA, NASA+, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Smithsonian Institution, Military Channel, AP, CGTN, TLC, Travel Channel, History Channel, A&E, USA, ABC, BBC, Netflix, Slice (CAN), MTV, Craftsy/NBCUniversal, U.S.-Aid, United Nations, and The Great Courses.

• Creative Director
• Field Producer
• Fixer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• TV News Producer
• Non-Fiction Film Director

During the course of his twenty + year career Andrew Paterson has worked for several major media outlets including the National Geographic Channel, CNN, and ABC News. He played a key role during the launch of both The National Geographic Channel and MSNBC, producing programming for each networks’s flagship news journal. Andrew loves to journey around the world to produce award-winning long form documentary programming and newsmagazine features. Andrew and his camera crews explore unusual and exotic locations. He has traveled in the back of a Fedex cargo plane with a pair of giant pandas en route from Beijing to the Memphis Zoo, walked with amateur athletes as they endured the blazing heat of the Gobi Desert, and experienced sub-arctic temperatures while touring Canada’s Oil Sands facilities. His wide ranging work includes an investigation of Aids in Africa, an examination of Chinese immigration to the United States, and a look at the treatment of Thailand’s domestic elephants. His programs garner industry awards including several Cine’ Golden Eagles, the US Humane Society’s Genesis Award, and a National Emmy nomination.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Production Company
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Field Producer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Meiying is a D.C.-based freelance multimedia journalist fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien. She aims to amplify marginalized voices and produce stories about communities often hidden from the mainstream news narrative. Most recently, Meiying was a video producer at POLITICO, where she created the POLITICO Show on Snapchat and made visual content for a variety of social platforms. She previously interned with the Los Angeles Times’s video department, covered the Covid-19 pandemic in California for The New York Times and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program, and had a film fellowship with CNN’s Great Big Story. She has produced work for PBS NewsHour, San Francisco Chronicle and Idaho Statesman. Meiying graduated from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Missouri School of Journalism.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• TV News Producer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Documentary DP

New Jersey native now in Pittsburgh. I’ve spent 10 years in filmmaking making narrative shorts, documentaries, and branded content. I’ve spent 6 of those years creating video and film content for the U.S. Army. In 2017, I managed to produce, write, direct, and edit my first funded short film, “The Edge With us”. This and more have been seen at the Austin Indie Film Festival, The Sundance Creative Minds Fellowship, Campus Movie Fest, MTV, HBO Max spotlights, LA CineFest, and most recently, Dragon Cannes 2. Dragon Cannes 2 was my most recent accomplishment, where I earned first place in a film competition that spanned the entire Department of Defense. My film, “The Reunion”; earned the top prize in the final round. Since then I have created four other short films, and my first true documentary, “The Last Shot”.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Senior Editor
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Non-Fiction Film Director

I am a writer, producer and director with over 20 years of experience. I founded Rising Night Productions to streamline the video production process for busy communications professionals. I bring my extensive network of video experts and skills in production, project management and digital marketing to every project. My mission is to make video projects easier for organizations of all sizes. I describe my niche as “informational.” I love working on things like testimonials that might help customers make informed decisions or videos that help explain how a product, service or process works. I also enjoy producing video content that helps make complex or hard-to-understand subjects more accessible and memorable. I work with a wide variety of organizations like non-profits, associations and government agencies in addition to for-profit companies.

• Field Producer
• Production Company
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Post-Production Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Copywriter

As a Trilingual Digital media producer at the United States Agency for Global Media, I create engaging and informative content for various platforms and audiences, covering stories about the human condition, minorities, science, and environment conservation. I am passionate about using visual storytelling to make a positive impact in the world, and I have won multiple awards for my short documentaries. I have a degree in documentary film making from the New York Film Academy, where I learned the skills and techniques of digital filmmaking, from sourcing footage and improving image quality, to adding effects and music. I am fluent in French, English, and Arabic, and I have worked with diverse and international teams and clients, such as AJ+, twofour54, and Aljazeera media Network. I am always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow as a media professional.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Executive Producer

Sarah Nelson is an award winning independent filmmaker. She is a Director and Editor at Constant Movement Cinema. She completed and received a B.A. in Philosophy from Salisbury University in 2005 and an M.A. in Film and Video from American University in 2013. Previously she worked for National Geographic Channel as an Associate Producer before setting out on her own to become a freelance filmmaker. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband Thomas Huggins, who she frequently collaborates with, as he is the Director of Photography on many of their projects. She has a passion for telling authentic, raw stories in any format be it narrative, documentary, commercial, etc…it doesn’t matter the medium it only matters the story.

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Sound Designer
• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Colorist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Full-Service Live Production
• Audio Storyteller
• Production Assistant

Jim Choi is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and sound recordist. As a graduate of the Painting Dept. at the Rhode Island School of Design, Choi has always brought a fine artist’s perspective to storytelling in his documentary films. Having formerly worked in the Public Television Department of the Center for Asian American Media, he has dedicated his career to the documentation of the Asian American experience and its representation to the broader public. Choi directed and filmed Changing Season on the Masumoto Family Farm, which aired on PBS in 2016. Changing Season witnesses the multi-generational Masumoto peach farm owner David “Mas” Masumoto and his successional relation with his daughter Nikiko.

• Sound Mixer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Field Producer

Alongside being a documentary photographer and filmmaker, Maen, professionally, is a human rights researcher and campaigner at Amnesty International. Maen considers himself a dedicated creative, always encouraged to learn and explore in the imaginative realms. He has been documenting the Palestinian skateboard scene for the last six years and engages in reciprocal nourishment with this community. Maen has experience as an awarded documentary filmmaker, having made Kickflips Over Occupation. Maen’s artistic pursuit chases him towards documentary photography, where narration and visual pieces fit perfectly to the puzzle making of a good story. Maen is currently a grantee of the Magnum Foundation working on a documentary photography project on the Palestinian skateboard scene.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Content Strategist
• Creative Director

I am an award-winning journalist with over 15 years of experience in the industry, based in central Appalachia. At heart I'm a newspaper writer. My writing has been published in major publications including The Guardian, The New Republic and Rolling Stone Country. But I've also had success (and a lot of fun) producing audio stories for West Virginia Public Broadcasting and short documentary films for media outlets and corporate clients. I have also worked as a fixer for outside journalists, drawing on a lifetime of connections to help my clients find authentic stories in this often misunderstood slice of America.

• Podcast Producer
• Audio Storyteller
• Reporter / Journalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Copywriter
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Fixer
• Sound Mixer
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Commercial

Award-winning filmmaker and director with a passion for storytelling. As an award-winning filmmaker and director, I have helmed a diverse array of projects, including narrative films, documentaries, and advertisements, across the globe. My work spans various scales, from intimate one-person crews to managing sets with over 50 professionals. I thrive in bringing stories to life, ensuring each project resonates deeply with its audience. Whether directing a compelling narrative, capturing real-life events, or creating engaging ads, my true passion lies in the art of storytelling from start to finish.

• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Documentary DP
• Senior Editor
• Art Director
• Executive Producer

Award-winning senior video editor with 17+ years of senior post-production experience spanning various continents. Experienced at identifying new business opportunities and managing complexity across content creation, product and technical development and budget. Proven record of video-editing of global projects for the world’s largest and most respected organizations. Working under multiple deadlines in high-pressure, dynamic environments. Known for creative vision, technical acumen, and attention to detail. Recipient of Telly Awards for excellence in video editing. Project Online Video Editor of Herstory Docuseries on Shahid online platform. Fluent in English and Arabic.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Creative Director
• Colorist
• Documentary DP
• Senior Editor
• Non-Fiction Film Director

After a decade in television, award winning producer, writer and multimedia artist Emmett Williams started Mission Man Media, a company that has produced dozens of inspiring and educational documentaries, web series, and short films around the world. He has told the story of grieving mothers who have lost their sons in Brazil, produced a web series about climate change in Africa, portrayed threatened fishing communities in Alaska, documented illegal logging in the Amazon, created a Black Lives Matter web series, been part of large scale art performances in Europe and filmed protests from Standing Rock to Washington, DC.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Audio Storyteller

Whether it's a documentary, a feature, photograph or the written word - I specialize in illuminating the unique aspects of a story that others may skim over. I approach topics with empathy, curiosity and professionalism. My goal is for the viewer to share a deep connection and sense of curiosity with the subject, forgetting that any other person was ever involved in bringing the story to life. My work has received many awards and garnered much attention. In 2016 I received an Emmy award for Outstanding Feature in a News Magazine in 2016. I have received Three medals at the 2016 New York Festivals International TV & Film Awards Competition. In 2018, my work received three more medals.

• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Landscape Photographer
• Corporate Videographer
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Non-Fiction Film Director