ABOUT
Colin Archdeacon is an American documentary film director and producer. He is best known for his work on the Paramount+ series Ctrl+Alt+Desire and the Netflix series Missing: Dead or Alive. He began his career as a video journalist, making films for outlets like The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC and PBS.
He's always looking for stories with psychological depth and real world stakes, the more nuance the better.
Colin Archdeacon is an American documentary film director and producer. He is best known for his work on the Paramount+ series Ctrl+Alt+Desire and the Netflix series Missing: Dead or Alive. He began his career as a video journalist, making films for outlets like The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC and PBS.
He's always looking for stories with psychological depth and real world stakes, the more nuance the better.
WORK
CTRL+ALT+DESIRE
I directed this Paramount+ docuseries about the bizarre case of Grant Amato, a man who enjoyed a life of success and privilege before his infatuation with a cam model landed him in the center of a homicide investigation. Based on four years of recorded conversations between myself and Grant, the film is a meditation on the way technology and loneliness are reshaping modern society.
MISSING
Netflix docuseries following a South Carolina sheriff’s department as they search for individuals who disappeared under troubling circumstances. By embedding with distressed families and the officers desperately searching for their missing loved ones, the series sheds light on the twin crises of drug abuse and mental health. I was a DP and Field Producer on the first two seasons.
NEWTOK
A sweeping portrait of America’s first climate refugees, shot over five years in a remote Alaskan village. As one of the principal Cinematographers and Field Producers, I lived and filmed with Yupiq families as rising sea levels forced them to evacuate their homes and rebuild an entire community.
SHAHADA
An investigative series on muslims in the military that I directed for NBC Left Field. I got intimate access to life on American Air Force Bases and told the story of two young muslim women finding their way in the armed forces. The resulting documentaries are an exploration of faith and family against the backdrop of the war on terror.
THE DEATH OF KODAK FILM
My documentary on the decline of the Eastman Kodak Company examines how the birth of digital photography hollowed out the communities that sprang up around the once booming analogue film industry. The film first appeared in The New York Times and was later aired on PBS.
REEL