David France Filmmaker (Welcome to Chechnya)

DAVID FRANCE is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, New York Times bestselling author, and award-winning investigative journalist. His latest book, titled HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (Knopf, 2016), received the Baillie Gifford Prize for best nonfiction book published in the English Language and the Green Carnation Prize, among many others.

His directorial debut, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (IFC Films 2012), was nominated for an Oscar, two Emmys, and a Directors Guild Award. The documentary won the Peabody Award and top honors from Gotham Awards, the International Documentary Association and the New York Film Critics Circle.

His 2017 film, THE DEATH & LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON (Netflix), won numerous festival prizes and was awarded the Outfest “Freedom Award” and a special jury recognition from Sheffield International Documentary Festival. Critics put it on multiple “Best of the Year” lists.

David’s newest documentary, WELCOME TO CHECHNYA (HBO Max 2020), won the special jury award for documentary editing at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and it received the Panorama Audience Award and Amnesty International Film Prize at 2020 Berlinale. The film was further recognized with a Peabody Award, a BAFTA Award and a Primetime Emmy nomination.

He’s currently in production on a documentary taking an inside look at the global race to research, develop, regulate, and roll out COVID-19 vaccines in the war against the pandemic with a targeted domestic and international release in 2022.