Chana Gazit

Chana Gazit is an award-winning documentary producer/director/writer. Her work has been honored with multiple EMMY nominations and three EMMY Awards. Additionally, she has been recognized by the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards, the Peabody Awards, the Writer’s Guild Awards, and the Sundance Film Festival.

Her career highlights include: senior producing two acclaimed PBS series on FDR and Lyndon Johnson. And directing and writing nine films for the PBS series, American Experience: Chicago ‘68, Surviving the Dust Bowl, Meltdown at Three Mile Island, Fatal Flood, The Pill, Test Tube Babies, The Forgotten Plague, The Codebreaker, and Change, Not Charity. Some of her other documentaries were featured in award-winning series: Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers, Slavery & the Making of America, Destination America, and This Emotional Life. She also directed an expose on the impact of captivity on the killer whales at SeaWorld and, more recently, was the executive producer of a six-part series on Big Pharma for which she directed two episodes on the opioid crisis. Her film on an all-male ballet company, Ballerina Boys, was the most streamed documentary on the PBS series, American Masters. Her most recent work is Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny, will be screened in 600 venues across the country.