Neil Alexander Collier is a Belgian-born British-American director and producer whose work spans two decades and 30 countries. He learned the nuts and bolts 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 and established himself as an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. 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 that peeled back the layers of a 1997 triple homicide in a small Arkansas community. The film, which premiered at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, marked a structural evolution for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines investigative series, serving as its first foray into feature-length storytelling. In 2024, he was part of The New York Times team awarded a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He now runs Fireside Studios, a production company with offices in Los Angeles and New York dedicated to cinematic, character-driven documentaries.