John Fiege

Roles: Director

John Fiege’s award-winning films have played at Hot Docs, SXSW, Big Sky, MoMA, Cannes, and many others, receiving distribution on Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Sundance Now, and other platforms. He is a 2024/2025 recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Media Projects Development Grant for his new film about consumption and waste in New York City. He has received numerous other fellowships, grants, and residencies, including from The Redford Center, Doc Society, Austin Film Society, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Princess Grace Foundation, Kodak, and Smithsonian Institution. His film awards include the Silver Heart Award at the Dallas International Film Festival, Best North American Documentary at the Global Visions Festival, and Best Documentary Short at Dallas VideoFest’s DocuFest. He was the director of photography on the Sundance documentary selection, No No: A Dockumentary. He hosts Chrysalis, a podcast about transformation in the face of global ecological crisis.

2025 Program(s):
Raising Aniya