DANA NACHMAN

Dana Nachman is an award winning filmmaker of both fiction and documentary films. Films that Nachman directed can currently be watched on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and Disney+. 

Nachman specializes in pulling out the emotion in any story whether a hard hitting investigative piece or a family friendly film. The Los Angeles Times writes, “Nachman adroitly focuses on the human stories… structuring narrative for maximum emotional impact.”

Nachman is a former journalist, turning to full time filmmaking in 2009. Her first film, Witch Hunt, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and was executive produced and narrated by Sean Penn and purchased by MSNBC Films.

Nachman has won best female director awards at both Cleveland International Film Festival and Seattle International Film Festival.  

She has directed three short films and six features and been the showrunner on two series currently streaming on Hulu. Her film projects have won dozens of awards at festivals around the world. 

Nachman’s 2018 feature documentary Pick of the Litter was released theatrically by IFC Films. The Walt Disney Company hired Nachman to remake Pick of the Litter as a limited original series for Disney+. Nachman served as one of the showrunners of the series. She also directed three of the episodes. 

Nachman’s 2019 narrative short Hook Up 2.0 premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Hook Up 2.0 and her 2016 short The Final Show, starring Marion Ross, screened at dozens of festivals and won several comedy awards. 

Nachman’s 2015 film Batkid Begins was bought and distributed by Warner Bros./New Line Cinema. 

In 2017 and 2018, Nachman was chosen to participate in the American Film Showcase where she traveled as a US envoy with the State Department as a part of this prestigious film diplomacy program. Nachman is a guest lecturer at Stanford University where she trains journalism students on best practices in interviewing on camera.

Born and raised in New York, Nachman graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut with a dual degree in Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations. She went on to earn a master’s degree from NYU in Broadcast Journalism. Nachman lives in Northern California with her husband and three children.