DOUG SHULTZ

Showrunner • Director • Producer • Writer

Doug Shultz is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who has been creating provocative film and television for over 20 years.  His work has screened at over 60 film festivals around the world and can be seen on outlets such as Netflix, Apple TV+, ABC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, Discovery and Viceland, among others.

Doug has a reputation for bringing a cinematic eye and an unconventional edge to a wide range of subjects, from social and environmental issues, science and natural history to large-scale docudrama. He most recently directed and produced THE LINE, a four-hour investigative series exploring Navy SEAL Team 7’s deployment to Iraq and the war crimes trial of Chief Edward Gallagher for Apple TV+. The series was nominated for two Documentary EMMY Awards: Best Documentary and Outstanding Investigative Documentary. Doug was also Director and Director of Photography for the international Netflix series PANDEMIC: HOW TO PREVENT AN OUTBREAK, nominated for an EMMY for Outstanding Science & Technology Documentary, and was a Producer, Cinematographer and Writer on THE HUMMINGBIRD EFFECT, current EMMY noninee for Outstanding Nature Documentary, a Jackson Wild Media Awards finalist for Animal Behavior Film and winner of the Prix de l’image at the Nature Namur Film Festival. He also produced the ABC / National Geographic Earth Day event, BORN WILD: THE NEXT GENERATION.

Doug also recently directed the CNN series CHASING LIFE with Dr. Sanjay Gupta - also nominated for an EMMY for Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary - and an investigation into water scarcity and conflict, PARCHED: GLOBAL WATER WARS, for National Geographic. Other recent films include the feature documentary DEFIANT REQUIEM, which won widespread acclaim on the international festival circuit and for which Doug was nominated for two News & Doc EMMY Awards for Outstanding Writing and Best Historical Documentary.

Other notable work includes the Emmy-winning docudrama series CIA CONFIDENTIAL, Emmy-nominated SHADOW OPS and the PBS Nature special SILENCE OF THE BEES which won a George Foster Peabody Award and was nominated for four News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

Doug is also the founder of Black Licorice Pictures,  a creative collective that develops and produces narrative content for all platforms, from feature films aimed at theatrical release to short films and music videos for TV, the web and whatever comes next. He's based in New York City.