Jim Cricchi

Jim Cricchi is known for crafting documentaries for film and television that masterfully convey difficult political and historical information through personal narratives. Jim directed, photographed and edited the feature documentary Can You Hear Us Now? and the IDA-shortlisted short documentary Los Lecheros (2017), a co-production with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. In 2019, he edited the DuPont-Columbia award-winning documentary Bedlam (Sundance, Independent Lens) about the US mental health care crisis. He has also edited films for the Emmy-winning series Vice on HBO. Los Lecheros (Mountainfilm, 2018) is his first documentary as director. The film unveils how closely intertwined the fates of undocumented immigrant workers and Wisconsin’s $43 billion dairy industry are. Both grapple with their options for survival as fear of ICE raids and deportations grows with the Trump administration. His work on the film led to the creation of Twelve Letter Films, a joint venture production company he began with Susan Peters.