Davis Guggenheim is an Oscar® award-winning director and producer who most recently produced and

co-directed the feature documentary film, Deaf President Now! which premiered at the 2025 Sundance®

Film Festival. The film, set to release on AppleTV+ in the Spring, tells the story of eight tumultuous days

in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, where four students led a movement to elect the university’s

first Deaf president and change the course of history.

Davis has directed and produced several critically acclaimed films, including AN INCONVENIENT

TRUTH, featuring former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, which won the Academy® Award for Best

Documentary Feature in 2007.

In 2023, Davis directed and produced the celebrated Sundance® documentary film “STILL: A Michael J.

Fox Movie” for Apple TV+. STILL became the most nominated Documentary or Nonfiction Series at the

2023 Emmys® taking home four awards, including Best Documentary as well as Outstanding Director for

a Documentary or Nonfiction Series. The film also swept the 2023 Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards

with five wins, and was nominated for the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Award

by the Directors Guild of America as well as Best Documentary by the British Academy of Film &

Television Arts.

Davis has directed numerous films on behalf of former U.S. President Barack Obama, including the

President’s biographical film broadcast during the 2008 Democratic National Convention; the October

2008 Obama infomercial receiving cinematic praise from The New York Times; and The Road We've

Traveled, a 17-minute short film on the President, released in 2012. He also directed the 2020

Democratic National Convention film for former President Joe Biden.

In 2019, Davis created and directed the celebrated Netflix documentary miniseries, INSIDE BILL’S

BRAIN: DECODING BILL GATES. He also produced and directed the 2015 documentary film, HE

NAMED ME MALALA, highlighting the activism and work of Malala Yousafzai, the world’s youngest

Nobel Prize laureate.

Guggenheim’s documentary, WAITING FOR SUPERMAN received the 2010 Sundance® Film Festival,

Audience Award for best documentary just two years after he released, IT MIGHT GET LOUD, a

documentary offering a glimpse into the lives of guitarists, Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White.

Davis has directed and produced episodes of the Emmy® Award-winning HBO series, DEADWOOD, as

well as several episodes of various television series including THE SHIELD, ALIAS, 24, NYPD BLUE,

ER, and THE UNIT (pilot episode).

Alongside Concordia Studio, Davis has served as executive producer of the feature documentary films,

SUMMER OF SOUL, BOYS STATE, GIRLS STATE, and TIME.

Davis Guggenheim established Concordia Studio in Venice, CA in 2017. He continues to serve as

Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Nonfiction for the company.