Jonathan Stack: The Storyteller
Jonathan Stack
Jonathan Stack is an Emmy Award winning and two- time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker. In 1991 he founded GABRIEL FILMS and has since gone on to produce over fifty films for nearly all of the cable channels in the US and many television partners abroad. He has released several films theatrically and shown his work at many of the major festivals including Sundance where he won the Grand Jury Prize in 1998.
While working as an independent filmmaker Stack has earned a reputation for his unique ability to gain access into forbidden and even dangerous worlds. His exclusives include, President Charles Taylor’s farewell speech to the nation of Liberia and a rare interview with David Miscaivage, head of the Church of Scientology. He has filmed inside Angola Prison over ten years, traveled with militias in Colombia and been to a last supper four times. He has filmed 10,000 feet below sea level and 20,000 feet above and told a few stories that took place thousands of years ago and even more stories that are happening today.

