ABOUT
Jack Weisman is a filmmaker who aspires to create visually striking and original works that defy easy classification. His creative nonfiction films have premiered at hundreds of festivals worldwide, including the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Toronto International Film Festival, and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
His debut feature, Nuisance Bear (2026), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2026 in the U.S. Documentary Competition, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. The 87-minute film was produced by A24 alongside longtime collaborator William Miller (Documist) and Teddy Leifer (Rise Films). Four-time Emmy award–winning composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer (The White Lotus, Utopia) composed the film’s unique score.
The original short film Nuisance Bear (2022), on which the feature is based, is a gripping, wordless study of polar bears navigating human-dominated landscapes in Churchill, Manitoba. The short received widespread acclaim, earning a place on the 95th Academy Awards shortlist, two Emmy nominations, and top honors at the Cinema Eye Honors, Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, and IDA Documentary Awards. The film was acquired shortly before its premiere at TIFF 2021 and is available to watch for free through The New Yorker.
Weisman is also a co-founder of Documist, a Sundance, Primetime Emmy, and Peabody award–winning production company based across New York City, Toronto, and Albuquerque.
He served as an executive producer on The Territory (2022), which premiered at Sundance 2022, where it won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize. The film is available on Disney+ via National Geographic Documentary Films.
