Neil Alexander Collier is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning British-American director and producer whose work spans two decades and 30 countries. His creative foundation was laid in a childhood shaped by a restless impulse to draw and a great appetite for films and literature.
He channeled that creative drive into learning the language of visual storytelling at the BBC in London, before cutting his teeth on the front lines with Al Jazeera. He then went on to work on projects for VICE, HBO, and The New York Times.
His focus on the human cost of conflict earned him a Peabody Award for So They Know We Existed (2021), a film on the war in Gaza that he produced and directed for The New York Times. He expanded his canvas with Scout Master (2022), a feature documentary investigating murders that shook a small Arkansas community in 1997. The film, which premiered at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, marked the first feature-length production for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines series.
In 2024, he was part of The New York Times team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
He now runs Fireside Studios, a production company with offices in Los Angeles and New York dedicated to character-driven storytelling across documentary and scripted narrative.