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.
Portraits of Heroes at Home follows Pulitzer Prize Winning photojournalist John Moore as he creates portraits of four soldiers and learns of their harrowing injuries on the battlefield and their remarkable stories of recovery.
GAIA takes the medical breakthroughs of the developed world and brings them to The Far End of the Road. Their focus is one district in Malawi where 1 out of 6 adults are HIV-positive and healthcare can be hours away.