Биография
Pagan Harleman is a multiple Emmy, IDA and Peabody award winning filmmaker who specializes in innovative character driven storytelling. She attended NYU Grad Film and initially focused on narrative -- working in post with Spike Lee, Ang Lee, and Alan Rudolph -- before pivoting to documentary. She has vast experience as a producer creating challenging and engaging stories that run the gamut from Bob Dylan going electric to New York city's first harrowing months of covid to Alex Honnold's preparation for his historic free solo to human smuggling at the US border, and has filmed around the globe -- from Iceland to Ghana, Antarctica to Honduras. She has collaborated with a range of celebrated filmmakers including Robert Redford, Marc Levin, Sam Pollard, Murray Lerner, Martin Smith, Kristi Jacobson, Sean and Andrea Fine, and Matt Heineman. Her work, including the Emmy-Award Winning and IDA-Award winning series The Trade, the Emmy, IDA Award winning and Oscar shortlisted film The First Wave, and the PGA, Critic's Choice and Grammy award winning and Oscar short listed American Symphony, has premiered at festivals around the world including Sundance, Sheffield, the New York Film Festival, South by Southwest, Telluride, and the London Film Festival, and appeared on netflix, abc, hulu, HBO, DisneyPlus, Discovery, CNN, and Showtime. Most recently she helped create and direct the Cinema Eye nominated Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin, and the Peabody and Emmy award winner and Spirit, ASC, Cinema Eye, Banff, and Glaad nominated Photographer, both with Oscar winners Jimmy Chin and Chai Vaserhalyi for Disney Plus.
