Reel Peak Films is an 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, HBO, 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 that aired on Netflix in fall 2020. More recently Reel Peak Films produced the documentary series “Shaun White: The Last Run”. 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.
Shaul Schwarz: Co-Founder
Shaul Schwarz is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and photojournalist based in Brooklyn, New York. His debut documentary, “Narco Cultura,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. 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. Schwarz is the co-founder of Reel Peak Films with Christina Clusiau. He was an executive producer and cinematographer on the Netflix documentary series “Unnatural Selection.” He was the co-director, producer and executive producer of the Netflix Original docuseries “Immigration Nation,” which premiered in 2020. In 2021, the series was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Series, a finalist for the Dupont Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast, Documentary and Online Journalism and received the 2020 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award, 2021 Peabody Award and 2021 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Series. In 2022, Schwarz co-directed and co-produced the documentary series “Shaun White: The Last Run.” Most recently he directed and produced “Fly”, a documentary film that premiered in 2024 at SXSW and is set to be released with Nat Geo Doc Film on IMAX, Disney+ and Hulu in September 2024.
Christina Clusiau: Co-Founder
Christina Clusiau is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, director and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, New York. 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. Clusiau 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, and the feature documentary “Aida’s Secrets.” In 2019, Clusiau was an executive producer and cinematographer on the Netflix documentary series “Unnatural Selection.” Christina was the co-director, producer and executive producer of the Netflix Original docuseries “Immigration Nation,” which premiered in 2020. In 2021, the series was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Series and was a finalist for the Dupont Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast, Documentary and Online Journalism. The series received the 2020 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award, 2021 Peabody Award and 2021 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Series. In 2022 Clusiau co-directed and co-produced the documentary series “Shaun White: The Last Run.” Most recently she directed and produced “Fly”, a documentary film that premiered in 2024 at SXSW and is set to be released with Nat Geo Doc Film on IMAX, Disney+ and Hulu in September 2024.