Director

Alex Pritz

Alex Pritz is a documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Documist. Recently, Alex directed The Territory, which premiered at Sundance 2022 where it won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft. The Territory was produced by Documist and Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, and won a 2023 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, was shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Awards, and won a Peabody Award. The film was also nominated for the Gotham Awards, the Producers Guild Awards, three Critics Choice Awards, and seven Cinema Eye Honors. Alex was also a cinematographer on the 2024 National Geographic limited series Photographer (dir. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin), and cinematographer + field producer on Jon Kasbe’s feature documentary, When Lambs Become Lions (Tribeca 2018). Alex was named a 2023 BAFTA Breakthrough Fellow, and has received grants from the Sundance Institute, IDA Enterprise Fund, Catapult Fund, and Doc Society. Alex holds a B.Sc. (Ag. & Env.) from McGill University where he studied Agriculture and Environmental Science.

Producer

Will N. Miller

Will N. Miller is an Emmy and Peabody award winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Documist, a production company based in NYC and Toronto. His work mostly focuses on environmental conflict, migration, and human rights. He produced Alex Pritz’s feature documentary The Territory (Sundance 2022), which was acquired by National Geographic Documentary Films and went on to win two Sundance awards, a Primetime Emmy for ‘Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking’, and a Peabody Award. It was also nominated for 7x Cinema Eye Awards, 3x Critics Choice Awards, a PGA Award, a Gotham Award, and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. He directed, shot, and edited the hybrid short Squid Fleet (Visions du Réel 2023), which won 10 awards and was nominated for a Golden Frog at Camerimage. He edited and produced Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden’s short doc Nuisance Bear (TIFF 2022), which won over 25 awards including the Critics Choice Award and Cinema Eye Honors, was nominated for 2x Documentary Emmy Awards, IDA Awards, and Canadian Screen Awards, and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards.