David Zeiger, Producer/Director/Writer

Guggenheim Fellow David Zeiger has been making documentary films and series for 25 years. His 2006 film, Sir! No Sir!, which told the long-suppressed story of the GI Movement to end the Vietnam War, ran theatrically in 65 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada and was broadcast in 200 countries worldwide, including on BBC Storyville, ARTE France, ABC Australia, and the Sundance Channel in the U.S. It won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival (Audience Award) and Hamptons Film Festival, and Seeds of War Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival, along with nominations for an International Documentary, Independent Spirit, and Gotham award. In 2010 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to produce his first narrative feature, Sweet Old World.