Jeffrey McHale

Jeffrey McHale is a documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His feature film debut, YOU DON’T NOMI, premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was an official selection of BFI: London, SITGES, Outfest, Frameline, Melbourne International Film Festival, and several others. Released in 2020, NOMI won the 2020 Florida Film Critics Circle award for Best Documentary, Film Threat’s Award This! prize for Best Film About Movies, and was Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Featured as one of Tribeca’s “Nine Filmmakers to Watch” in the New York Times, McHale’s work examines queer subcultures and how individuals define and express their identities.

As a television editor, McHale has worked on programming for World of Wonder, Al Jazeera English, KCET, Voice of America, Spectrum News 1, and Fox Sports. A native of Michigan, McHale got his start at WGN  America after studying film at Columbia College Chicago.