Who are we?
Joe Singer
FILMMAKER
Join me in making the best possible films for entertainment and impact.
Hello, my name is Joe Singer. Creating experience and unique story structures to achieve meaningful creative and/or social impact in visual storytelling has become my life’s work. My mediums/outlets are: film (art, narrative, and documentary), television, video streaming, multimedia, animation, illustration, and journalism. What you’ll get from me and my collaborators are generous and dedicated film and media professionals with a commitment to storytelling that makes a difference.
Joe Singer is a film producer, director, screenwriter, editor and animator whose work with ProPublica, Human Rights Watch, ABC, Disney, Netflix, Frontline, Amazon Video and others has earned Emmy, Murrow, Pulitzer, Peabody, Malofiej, Webby, and National Magazine awards and an Oscar nomination. Singer is one of the founding members of ProPublica’s documentary films department (he is currently a consultant for ProPublica, in addition to other independent film work). He edited and produced (with Katie Campbell) the Emmy award-winner “Rescuing her Father” (ProPublica/Frontline), he co-produced, directed, and animated “John Henryism Explained,” which won the National Magazine Award for Coverage of Race in America, and edited and supervised all post-production for ProPublica’s first feature, “Unprotected,” which won an Edward R. Murrow award and aired on the BBC. Prior to that, Singer edited and supervised animation on the Academy-award-nominated documentary “Knife Skills” and directed the Emmy-nominated 1950s comic book-styled parody, “HowThings Werk” (Disney/ABC). Singer has an MFA in film production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Design/Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Awards Timeline
The Secret IRS Files
Emmy nomination
CATEGORY: Design and Art Direction
JOE SINGER: Director, Animator, and Designer
Rescuing Her Father
Emmy winner
CATEGORY: Best Short Documentary
JOE SINGER: Producer & Editor
John Henryism Explained
1) Ellie winner
2) Best of Photojournalism
3) George Polk Award
CATEGORY 1: Coverage of Race in America
CATEGORY 2: Best of Photojournalism
CATEGORY 3: Health Reporting
JOE SINGER: Producer, Director, and Animator
John Henryism Explained
Rescuing Her Father
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
CATEGORY: Coverage During the Pandemic
JOE SINGER: Producer, Director, Editor, and Animator
Adrift; Disaster in the Pacific
1) Pulitzer Prize winner
2) Online Journalism Award
3) Malofiej Award
CATEGORY 1: Multimedia Story
CATEGORY 2: Digital Video Storytelling
CATEGORY 3: Motion Graphics Animation
JOE SINGER: Animation Director & Editor
Unprotected
1) Edward R. Murrow Award
2) World Press Photo Award
3) Pictures of the Year Award
CATEGORY 1: Feature Documentary
CATEGORY 2: Feature Documentary
CATEGORY 3: Feature Documentary, 1st Place
JOE SINGER: Animation Director & Editor
Knife Skills
Academy Award nomination
CATEGORY: Documentary (40min.)
JOE SINGER: Story Consultant & Editor
Gold's Costly Dividend
Peabody Award winner
CATEGORY: Documentary Short
JOE SINGER: Co-writer & Editor
Acting Up: Russia's Civil Society
Peabody Award winner
CATEGORY: Multimedia
JOE SINGER: Lead Editor
Dear Obama
Webby Award winner (2)
CATEGORY: Short Documentary
CATEGORY: News & Politics
JOE SINGER: Co-writer & Editor
Stereopsis
1) Alfred P. Sloan Film Grant
2) Special Commendation
3) First Run Audience Award
CATEGORY 1: Short Film ($20,000 award)
CATEGORY 2: NYU Faculty award: Special Effects
CATEGORY 3: First Run Film Festival, Best Short
JOE SINGER: Writer, Director, Editor, & F/X Producer
How Things Werk
Emmy nomination
CATEGORY: Best Animated Show
JOE SINGER: Director & Artist/Designer

















