Brian Gersten is the founder of Sufficient Films, a full service documentary production company based in the Hudson Valley. As founder of Sufficient Films, Brian's documentaries have gone on to screen in ten different countries and at dozens of notable film festivals around the globe. Brian's short documentary "The Great Toilet Paper Scare" premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2020 before going on a successful festival run, and his short archival documentary "Balloon Boy" won Best Short Director at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in 2023 and was subsequently selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick in 2024. Brian's newest documentary "Hollywood's Mermaid" chronicles the life and career of swimming sensation turned movie starlet, Esther Williams. The film was awarded Best Documentary Short at Florida Film Festival and is currently screening in film festivals across the country. Much of Brian's work can be seen on the likes of PBS, Amazon Prime, Kanopy, and The Atlantic. His films have been written about and featured in Forbes, Film Inquiry, The AV Club, and CBS Sunday Morning. 
 
In addition to making short documentaries and branded content through Sufficient Films, Brian also works as a feature documentary editor. In 2019, Brian edited his first feature documentary "Searching for Mr. Rugoff," which had its streaming premiere on the Criterion Channel and is currently 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Brian then went on to edit the feature documentaries "Radical Wolfe," which examines the life and work of author Tom Wolfe, and "Enter The Slipstream," a sports documentary that follows the EF Pro Cycling team through the 2020 Tour de France. Most recently, Brian edited the WWII documentary "Why We Dream" which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2025 and was acquired by CNN Films in 2026. Aside from making films, Brian has also taught filmmaking courses and workshops at Rutgers University, Northwestern University, and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.