Reel Peak Films is an EMMY award-winning production company that produces documentary films and series with journalistic integrity and cinematic quality. Founders Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau direct and produce projects for a variety of digital platforms, television and theatrical release. Reel Peak Films has created content for media clients such as Netflix, TIME, CNN, Discovery, National Geographic, and The New Yorker. Their films have appeared at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals and at various other festivals around the world. After producing the Netflix documentary series, Unnatural Selection, Reel Peak Films directed and produced Immigration Nation, a six-part documentary series set to air on Netflix in fall 2020. Previously, the company directed and produced the series, A Year In Space in partnership with TIME’s Red Border Films, and the documentary feature Trophy, both of which won Emmy Awards.
WHO ARE WE?
Shaul Schwarz
Shaul Schwarz is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and photojournalist based in Brooklyn, NY. His debut documentary, Narco Cultura, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. He is also a regular photographic contributor to Time magazine and National Geographic and has directed content for Netflix, Discovery Channel, History Channel and CNN. In 2016, he directed the Emmy-winning series, A Year in Space, produced with Time’s Red Border Films, co-directed the documentary Aida's Secrets, which premiered at Hot Docs in 2016, and co-directed the Emmy-winning documentary, Trophy which premiered at Sundance in 2017. Shaul is the co-founder of Reel Peak Films with Christina Clusiau. Most recently he was an executive producer and cinematographer on the Netflix documentary series, Unnatural Selection.
Christina Clusiau
Christina Clusiau is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She co-founded the production company Reel Peak Films with Shaul Schwarz, specializing in documentary films and series that prioritize cinematic quality and journalistic integrity. Christina co-directed the Emmy-winning documentary Trophy, which premiered at Sundance in 2017. She also shot the Emmy-winning series, A Year in Space, in partnership with Time’s Red Border Films, as well as the feature documentary Aida’s Secrets. Most recently Clusiau was an executive producer and cinematographer on the Netflix documentary series, Unnatural Selection.
Gillian Laub
Gillian Laub is a regular contributor to many publications including The New York Times Magazine and TIME Magazine. She was selected for the World Press Photo's Joop Swart Master Class in 2003 and won Nikon's Storyteller Award in 2005. Laub was Aperture's Artist of the year following the publication of her first monograph in 2007. In 2009, her photo essay and multimedia piece about segregated proms in Georgia was published in The New York Times Magazine. Inspired by this body of work, she is currently directing and producing a feature length documentary about race in the American South. Laub currently lives in New York. Her art work is widely exhibited and collected.
Jared Moossy
Jared Moossy is an Austin, Texas based photographer and cinematographer. He has worked as a photojournalist for numerous publications such as TIME Magazine, Stern Magazine, and Harpers. In 2009 he was named one of PDN’s 30 emerging photographers. Most recently, Moossy worked with HBO as the cinematographer for WITNESS, a series produced by Michael Mann, which premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival to rave reviews. Moossy graduated from Parson's School of Design in 2008. His main focus is on the sociopolitical landscapes of countries in conflict.
Nadav Neuhaus
Nadav Neuhaus is a photojournalist and filmmaker living in Jersey City, NJ. He spent a decade in Israel working as a photojournalist before moving to the United States in 2005. Since then he has covered border issues in Juarez and Tijuana, scientists training to go to Mars, Innuit life near the north pole and the aftermath of the Japanese and Haitian earthquakes. His multimedia piece on rape in Haitian refugee camps was named a PDN Photo Annual selection for 2012. His photographs have been published in L’Express, VSD, Paris Match, Le Figaro, The Independent (London), The Times (London), TIME, Newsweek, Stern, The New York Times and National Geographic. He is currently focusing on short film commissions and completing production of The Search for the Golden Cage, a film about electrohypersensitvity.
Alon Schwarz
Alon began working as a video editor in Israel ten years ago and has since also directed short documentaries and produced a few commercial films. In 2013 Alon joined his brother Shaul as script writer and editorial consultant for the film Narco Cultura which was premiered at Sundance 2013 and got theatrical distribution in the United States. Before this Alon and Shaul worked together on other projects including feature length film “The Block” which was produced in 2005. Alon is currently directing and producing the feature documentary ‘Aida`s Secrets’ and producing the feature documentary ‘The Goal.'
Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
Jay Arthur Sterrenberg is a New York based filmmaker and editor whose work has appeared in theaters, on HBO, Arte, ESPN, and PBS. Documentary editing credits include Sundance premiere Narco Cultura (Cinedigm, 2013), Academy Award nominated Redemption (HBO, 2013), Emmy Nominated Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (HBO, 2008), and Wartorn (HBO, 2010). He served as consulting editor for Emmy Nominated Good Fortune (POV, 2009), Slamdance Grand Jury winner Welcome to Pine Hill (Oscilloscope, 2013) and Five Star (winner of the "Best Editing" award at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival). Jay is also founder of the Meerkat Media Collective, an award-winning arts collective and co-operatively run production company that prioritize shared authorship and skillsharing within their creative process. He edited, shot, produced and co-directed the collective's two feature length documentaries: Stages (New Day Films, 2010) and Brasslands (The Orchard, 2013) which have screened around the world including Rotterdam, Los Angeles Film Festival, CPH:DOX and Thessaloniki.
Jeff Sterrenberg
Jeff Sterrenberg is an award winning filmmaker and teacher currently based in Brooklyn, New York. With over 8 years of experience his work has been seen on The Documentary Channel, TIME.com, and on the website of The Atlantic. He was on the editing team of the Oscar-nominated short documentary Sun Come Up. With his colleagues in the Meerkat Media Collective he helped direct, shoot and editBrasslands—which has played in festivals around the world. Jeff is also a proud member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.
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