Producer Helen Hood Scheer is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, freelance producer, and Associate Professor at California State University Long Beach, where she spearheads the Creative Nonfiction program and earned the CSULB Distinguished Teaching Award. Helen wears many hats including producer, archival producer, and consulting producer on documentaries for other directors, as well as producer, director, cinematographer, and sometimes editor on her own projects. Genres and styles span portraits of artists and public figures to observational docs about sports and culture to hybrid features. Films she worked on have screened theatrically; been broadcast on networks including HBO, PBS, Showtime, BBC, Starz, ABC, A&E and National Geographic; and been invited to a variety of venues including Tribeca, SXSW, Hot Docs, the Getty Museum, the British Film Institute, and the U.S. Department of State’s American Film Showcase. Her work has been funded by Sundance, California Humanities, International Documentary Association, Level Forward, The Harnisch Foundation, The deNovo Initiative and more. 

Select works include Producing and Archival Producing Body Parts (dir. by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan);  Producing/Directing/Filming JUMP! (5x Audience Award wins) and and The Apothecary  (Student Academy Award) ; Producing TV specials on James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Sam Phillips; and serving as Consulting Producer on The Tallest Dwarf (dir. by Julie Wyman; 2025, Tribeca and PBS) How to Have an American Baby (dir. by Leslie Tai; 2023, PBS); and For Madmen Only (dir. by Heather Ross; 2020, called “funny and poignant” by The Hollywood Reporter).