Jeff Dupre’s work has been released theatrically and screened at film festivals throughout the world—as well as airing on PBS, HBO, the BBC, NHK and Arte––and has earned numerous illustrious honors, establishing him as producer/director with a knack both for managing complex productions and for bringing his subjects to life.

Jeff conceived and was the producer and co-director of Marina Abramović: the artist is present a feature documentary on the legendary performance artist that premiered at Sundance in 2012. The film won the George Foster Peabody Award, the panorama audience award at the 2012 Berlinale and the special jury prize at the Sheffield Doc Fest. It was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, a Gotham IFP Award and the Cinema Eye Honors.

He was an executive producer of Half the Sky, the groundbreaking documentary series and transmedia project based on the bestselling book by pulitzer prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

Together with Maro, Jeff directed and was executive producer of Circus, a 6-part documentary series that premiered on PBS in November 2010. Praising circus as “beautifully filmed,” “truly affecting,” and “quietly addictive,” the New York Times invited readers to “think of it as investing six hours in an elegant eavesdrop-on-our-family reality show that puts all the noisy, obnoxious examples of that genre to shame.”

He was also a producer of carrier, the Emmy award-winning ten-part documentary series that premiered on PBS in April 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. Entertainment Weekly called the series “honest and engrossing” and said it is “mandatory viewing.” Newsday described it as “frank and intimate, hard-hitting and heart-rending.”

Prior to founding show of force with Maro, Jeff was a producer of Michael Kantor’s broadway: The American Musical, a six-part series that premiered on PBS in October 2004. Variety called it “engrossing” and “illuminating,” and said “this lovingly crafted six-part series is in itself a milestone.” broadway: the american musical won the 2005 emmy award for outstanding non-fiction series.

Jeff was field producer of Stephen Ives’ Las Vegas: an unconventional history that aired on the Emmy award-winning series american experience for WGBH/PBS in 2005. He also directed, produced and shot two episodes of the series women docs for Lifetime television in 2002.

Jeff’s directorial debut, out of the past, won the audience award for best documentary at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. The New York post called out of the past “eye-opening and moving,” and the New Yorker praised it as “an emotionally textured treatise on alienation and marginalization which is intelligent and entertaining.” the film, which was broadcast on PBS in October, 1998, also garnered the audience award at Outfest ’98 and won the 1998 GLAAD Media Award for best documentary.