Alex Pritz is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Documist. Recently, Alex directed The Territory, which premiered at Sundance 2022 where it won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft. The Territory was produced by Documist and Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, and won a 2023 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, was shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Awards, and won a Peabody Award. The film was also nominated for the Gotham Awards, the Producers Guild Awards, three Critics Choice Awards, and seven Cinema Eye Honors. The Territory was acquired by National Geographic Documentary Films and is available globally on Hulu and Disney+.
Alex won a News and Documentary Emmy for his work as a cinematographer on the feature documentary The First Wave (dir. Matt Heineman). He was also a cinematographer on the 2024 National Geographic limited series Photographer (dir. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin), and cinematographer + field producer on Jon Kasbe’s feature documentary, When Lambs Become Lions (Tribeca 2018). Alex was named a 2023 BAFTA Breakthrough Fellow, and has received grants from the Sundance Institute, IDA Enterprise Fund, Catapult Fund, Doc Society.
Alex holds a B.Sc. (Ag. & Env.) from McGill University where he studied Agriculture and Environmental Science.
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