Xan Parker Producer (Rebuilding Paradise)

October 07, 2021

Xan Parker is a documentary producer based in New York City. She executive produced the upcoming series “Mind/Trip” directed by the award-winning team of Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Lana Wilson and Steve Maing. She was the creative producer of Ron Howard’s 2020 film “Rebuilding Paradise” (National Geographic) and of Ross Kauffman’s “Tigerland” (Discovery 2019). Xan produced Toby Oppenheimer’s “The End: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House” (CNN 2017), Celia Maysles’ “Wild Blue Yonder,” Stephanie Wang-Breal’s “The Contested Convention” (ESPNFilms 2016), Rachel Boynton’s “Big Men” (2013), Kristi Jacobson’s “A Place at the Table” (2012), and Marshall Curry’s “Racing Dreams” (Best Documentary, 2009 Tribeca Film Festival). Xan executive produced Ivy Meeropol’s critically acclaimed 2007 series “The Hill,” and was a producer on the Academy Award nominated HBO film “LaLee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton” (2001 duPont-Columbia Award) directed by her mentors Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson and Albert Maysles.