Jeff Spitz

Emmy Award-winning documentarian Jeff Spitz is the director of the official Sundance Film Festival selection, "The Return of Navajo Boy."

Spitz's work, which focuses on real people whose stories challenge our assumptions and revive our sense of human potential, has aired on ABC, PBS, A&E, and The Learning Channel.

He has served in the hybrid capacity of writer-director-producer for several acclaimed documentaries, including the national primetime PBS film, "From the Bottom Up," as well as the education exposes "Many Voices, Many Dreams," "Tell No Lies," and "Mis Padres, Mis Maestros." He also handled writing, directing, and production duties for the documentary, "America's Libraries Change Lives," narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.

Spitz wrote and produced "The Roosevelt Experiment," an Emmy Award-winning ABC-TV Special. He also wrote and produced "The Unexplained: ESP, Dreams and Disasters" for A&E and "The 90s: Race and Racism" for national PBS.

Spitz is a graduate of UCLA and holds a Master of Arts degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. The native Californian teaches documentary film at Columbia College Chicago.

Films

• The Return of Navajo Boy (With 2008 Epilogue)