JEFF
SPITZ, Director
Emmy Award-winning
documentarian Jeff Spitz
is the director of the official Sundance Film Festival 2000
selection The Return of Navajo Boy.
Spitz's
work, which focuses on real people whose stories challenge our
assumptions and revive our sense of human potential, has aired
on ABC, PBS, A&E and The Learning Channel.
He has
served in the hybrid capacity of writer-director-producer for
several acclaimed documentaries, including the national primetime
PBS film, "From the Bottom Up," as well as the education exposes
"Many Voices, Many Dreams," "Tell No Lies" and "Mis Padres,
Mis Maestros." He also handled writing, directing and production
duties for the documentary, "America's Libraries Change Lives,"
narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.
Spitz wrote
and produced "The Roosevelt Experiment," an Emmy Award-winning
ABC-TV Special. He also wrote and produced "The Unexplained:
ESP, Dreams and Disasters" for A&E and "The 90s: Race and Racism"
for national PBS.
Spitz is
a graduate of UCLA and holds a Master of Arts degree in English
Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. The
native Californian currently resides in Chicago with his wife,
Jennifer.
