Jack Weisman

Jack Weisman aspires to make visually striking and original films that defy easy classification. His works of creative nonfiction have premiered at many festivals including Sundance, SXSW, TIFF and IDFA. His breakout short, Nuisance Bear (Mountainfilm 2022), co-directed with Gabriela Osio Vanden, offers a gripping, wordless study of polar bears navigating human-dominated landscapes in Churchill, Manitoba. The film received widespread acclaim, earning a spot on the 95th Academy Award Shortlist, two Emmy nominations, and top honors at Cinema Eye Honors, Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards and IDA Documentary Awards. Weisman’s debut feature, Nuisance Bear (Mountainfilm 2026), is also co-directed with Gabriela Osio Vanden and produced by A24, Documist and Rise Films. He is a co-founder of Documist, an Emmy-and Peabody-winning production company based in New York City and Toronto. He served as an executive producer on The Territory (2022), which premiered at Sundance, where it won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize, and is now available on Disney+ through National Geographic Documentary Films.