Jeffrey Plunkett
I am currently on the presidential campaign trail producing/directing for Showtime’s real-time documentary series THE CIRCUS. In 2015 I directed a series about social entrepreneurs around the world for Red Bull TV. Previously, I produced & directed THE OPPOSITION, a documentary for ESPN’s 30-FOR-30 series about the collision of soccer and politics after Chile’s 1973 coup, and BORDERLAND, a four-part series for Al Jazeera America about the realities of undocumented immigration.
After graduating from the J-school, I worked for 6+ years at Current TV. While making films for the Vanguard documentary series, I embedded with the far-right English Defense League to illustrate Europe’s growing fear of Islam, traveled to the hills of Oaxaca to explore the roots of America’s illegal immigration problem, posed as a soccer agent in Ghana and France to understand the illegal trade in young African players, and was thrown out of an tobacco industry conference in Jakarta while documenting Big Tobacco’s aggressive push into the developing world. I also executive produced InfoMania and The Rotten Tomatoes Show.