Documentary Filmmaker Nathaniel Hansen is an Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award-winning producer, director, cinematographer, editor, and educator whose work spans documentary filmmaking, branded content, and visual storytelling. Over the past two decades, his projects have taken him across the globe, with productions in Japan, China, India, South Africa, England, Albania, Amsterdam, the Czech Republic, and nearly all 50 U.S. states.

Nathaniel’s feature documentary work, described by The Boston Globe as “outstanding,” have screened at Tribeca, SXSW, Hot Docs, and Camden. His films and collaborations have been featured by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vimeo Staff Picks, National Geographic Shorts, and PBS, as well as broadcast on MSNBC, Peacock!, Amazon Prime, and AppleTV.

As a commercial director, he has created campaigns for brands like Calvin Klein, Clinique, Pantone, Fossil, and Johnson & Johnson. A dedicated educator, Nathaniel leads the Visual Storytelling Lab in the Balkans, lectures for the U.S. Embassy in Albania, and is an affiliated faculty member at Emerson College.

Nathaniel holds an MFA in Visual & Media Arts from Emerson College and lives in Boston with his partner, Felicity Salmon—a classical musician and arts administrator—and their three children. You can read more about Nathaniel’s work here, here, and here.