Alyse Shorland Producer/Director

Alyse Shorland is a two-time Emmy and Peabody-winning director and producer, who’s made great things with HBO, NBC Studios, One Story Up, VICE, CBS, FX, HULU, CNN, and the New York Times. Her work marries artful filmmaking with journalistic curiosity and rigor, and she has helped craft some of the most ambitious films, series, and television of the past decade. Alyse was a director for The Weekly from the New York Times, where her films featured original and investigative reporting, and interviews with Fortune 500 CEOs and legacy politicians. She was an inaugural director on the muti-Emmy winning Vice News Tonight on HBO, which reconceived the nightly newscast format into an innovative, immersive documentary program. She’s produced long-form stories for CBS Sunday Morning and CBS This Morning and was an original producer on the CNN documentary series Black in America with Soledad O’Brien. She’s also a professor at NYU.