Todd Chandler’s work explores American rituals, landscapes, and systems of power. His projects have been featured at True/False Film Fest, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Doclisboa, the Hammer Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and MASS MoCA. His most recent feature documentary, BULLETPROOF, screened at more than two dozen festivals worldwide and was called “dreamlike and startling” by The New York Times and “a quiet gut punch of a film” by The Guardian. He is a Sundance Institute and Points North Institute Fellow, and the recipient of a Creative Capital award, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival International Emerging Filmmaker Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. His most recent film, the documentary short 9,192,631,770 Hz, executive produced by Sandbox Films, premiered at Camden International Film Festival and International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

He is also an accomplished film editor. He was lead editor and a human rights video advocacy trainer at WITNESS, edited the Academy Award–nominated documentary short IN THE ABSENCE, directed by Yi Seung-jun, and Reid Davenport’s feature documentary I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE, which won Davenport the U.S. Documentary Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival and the Truer Than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. He frequently works as a consulting editor, most recently on the documentary features SUGARCANE, MILISUTHANDO, RICHLAND, HOMEGROWN, TO USE A MOUNTAIN, and RIVER OF GRASS.