Shaul Schwarz

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Shaul Schwarz

Biography

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. Shau...

Production

2013

Narco Cultura

as Director

2013

Miracle Rising: South Africa

as Director of Photography

2022

Tantura

as Producer

2022

Tantura

as Writer

2016

A Year in Space

as Director

2016

Aida's Secrets

as Director

2024

Fly

as Director

2013

Narco Cultura

as Director of Photography

2013

Narco Cultura

as Writer

2017

Trophy

as Director

2024

Fly

as Producer

2017

Beyond Silence

as Director

2015

Southern Rites

as Camera Operator

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