Stacey Reiss is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker who produces documentary features, narrative films and series.
Stacey Reiss was the show runner and Co-Executive Producer of THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES, a six-part docuseries nominated for four Emmys, which premiered on Netflix in March 2022. She also produced the THE PERFECTION starring Allison Williams (GIRLS, GET OUT) and Logan Browning (DEAR WHITE PEOPLE) which premiered on Netflix in May 2019, and TOKYO PROJECT starring Elisabeth Moss and Ebon Moss Bachrach which premiered on HBO in October 2018.
Reiss produced the award-winning documentary THE EAGLE HUNTRESS, which follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female eagle hunter in twelve generations of her Kazakh family. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2016 and played at festivals around the world including Telluride, Toronto, London, Rome, and IDFA. Released by Sony Pictures Classics, THE EAGLE HUNTRESS was shortlisted for an Academy Award and nominated for a PGA, DGA, and BAFTA awards. It was awarded a Cinema Eye and named one of the top films of 2016 by the National Board of Review.
Her film SPACESHIP EARTH premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by NEON in 2020. Additional documentary credits include five films for HBO: IT’S A HARD TRUTH AIN’T IT, co-directed by 13 incarcerated men (Tribeca 2018); SUITED, a modern look at gender through the conduit of clothing (Sundance 2016); THE DIPLOMAT, about the life and legacy of the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke (Tribeca 2015); IT’S ME, HILARY, a portrait of the artist behind the iconic “Eloise” books (Sundance 2015); and I KNEW IT WAS YOU, about the late actor John Cazale, best known as “Fredo” in The Godfather (Sundance 2009).
She served as the show runner and Executive Producer of LENNY, a pilot for HBO based on the newsletter created by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner (Sundance 2018).
Prior to making films, Reiss was an award winning producer for DATELINE NBC for over a decade. She has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and a Reboot board member.
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