Neil Alexander Collier is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director and producer based in New York City. Credits on HBO, the BBC, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, VICE.
About
He learned the nuts and bolts of visual storytelling at the BBC in London, before cutting his teeth on the front lines with Al Jazeera. He went on to work on projects for VICE, HBO, and The New York Times and established himself as an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. His focus on the human cost of conflict earned him a Peabody Award for 'So They Know We Existed' (2021), a film on the war in Gaza produced with The New York Times. He expanded his canvas with 'Scout Master' (2022), a feature documentary investigating a 1997 triple homicide in Arkansas. The film marked the first feature-length production for Al Jazeera’s 'Fault Lines' series. In 2024, he was part of the NYT team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.Today, he runs Fireside Studios, a production company with offices in Los Angeles and New York dedicated to character-driven storytelling across documentary and scripted narrative.
