Aaron Schock is an Emmy-nominated director who holds an M.A. in public policy from Columbia University. Before turning to documentary filmmaking, he worked in social research at Columbia and in nonprofit community development in the South Bronx. His feature documentary CIRCO premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Festival, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Hamptons International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the U.S., U.K., and Canada before airing nationally on Independent Lens and internationally on HBO. His film LA LAGUNA received a 2017 Cinema Eye Honors Award and won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival and the Panavision Best North American Short Award at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, among other honors.