
Eric Daniel Metzgar is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and two-time Sundance Documentary Lab Fellow. He directed, shot, and edited REPORTER, which premiered at Sundance, aired on HBO, and was nominated for an Emmy. Metzgar also directed, shot, and edited LIFE. SUPPORT. MUSIC (P.O.V., 2008) and the Independent Spirit Award–nominated THE CHANCES OF THE WORLD CHANGING (P.O.V., 2006). He edited and produced the Emmy Award–winning CRIME + PUNISHMENT and edited the Emmy-nominated films GIVE UP TOMORROW and ALMOST SUNRISE. Metzgar teaches Buddhist meditation at Deuel Vocational Institution, a maximum-security prison in California, and mentors inmates in San Quentin Prison’s journalism program.