Alex Pritz is a New York City-based documentary director and cinematographer, and co-founder of Documist. Alex’s debut feature The Territory premiered at Sundance film festival where it won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft. The Territory was produced by Documist alongside Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures. The film won a 2023 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, a Peabody award, and was shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Awards. The film was also nominated for the Gotham Awards, the Producers Guild Awards, three Critics Choice Awards, and seven Cinema Eye Honors. The Territory was acquired by National Geographic Documentary Films and is available globally on Hulu and Disney+. Alex also served as an Executive Producer on the 2026 feature documentary Nuisance Bear, which won the Sundance US Documentary Grand Jury Prize and was acquired by MUBI for a global release. Nuisance Bear was directed by Documist co-founder Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, and produced by A24, Documist, and Rise Films.

Alex was the director of photography on Murder 101 (dir. Stacey Lee), a three-part series which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, and was released by Amazon Studios / MGM. Pritz was also a cinematographer on the 2024 National Geographic limited series Photographer (dir. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin) which won a News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Nature Series. Alex was a cinematographer + field producer on Jon Kasbe’s feature documentary, When Lambs Become Lions (Tribeca 2018), and was named a 2023 BAFTA Breakthrough Fellow, an inaugural Dalai Lama Fellow, and has received grants from the Sundance Institute, IDA Enterprise Fund, Catapult Fund, Doc Society.

Alex holds a B.Sc. (Ag. & Env.) from McGill University where he studied Agriculture and Environmental Science.

Alex is known for his observational cinematography across documentary features, limited series, and long-form branded work. He owns and operates a Sony Burano package and is FAA Part-107 certified.

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