Reel Peak Films is an award-winning production company that produces documentary films and series with journalistic integrity and cinematic quality. Founders Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau direct and produce projects for a variety of digital platforms, television and theatrical release. Reel Peak Films has created content for media clients such as Netflix, TIME, CNN, Discovery, National Geographic, and The New Yorker. Their films have appeared at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals and at various other festivals around the world. After producing the Netflix documentary series, Unnatural Selection, Reel Peak Films directed and produced Immigration Nation, a six-part documentary that aired on Netflix in fall 2020. Previously, the company directed and produced the series, A Year In Space in partnership with TIME’s Red Border Films, and the documentary feature Trophy, both of which won Emmy Awards.
Shaul Schwarz: Co-Founder
Shaul Schwarz is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and photojournalist based in Brooklyn, NY. His debut documentary, Narco Cultura, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. He is also a regular photographic contributor to Time magazine and National Geographic and has directed content for Netflix, Discovery Channel, History Channel and CNN. In 2016, he directed the Emmy-winning series, A Year in Space, produced with Time’s Red Border Films, co-directed the documentary Aida's Secrets, which premiered at Hot Docs in 2016, and co-directed the Emmy-winning documentary, Trophy which premiered at Sundance in 2017. Shaul is the co-founder of Reel Peak Films with Christina Clusiau. He was an executive producer and cinematographer on the Netflix documentary series, Unnatural Selection and director and executive producer of Immigration Nation. Most recently, Shaul produced Tantura directed by Alon Schwarz that premieres at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
Christina Clusiau: Co-Founder
Christina Clusiau is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She co-founded the production company Reel Peak Films with Shaul Schwarz, specializing in documentary films and series that prioritize cinematic quality and journalistic integrity. Christina co-directed the Emmy-winning documentary Trophy, which premiered at Sundance in 2017. She also shot the Emmy-winning series, A Year in Space, in partnership with Time’s Red Border Films, as well as the feature documentary Aida’s Secrets. Clusiau was an executive producer and cinematographer on the Netflix documentary series, Unnatural Selection and the director, producer and executive producer on Immigration Nation.
Alon Schwarz - Collaborator
Alon Schwarz is an award-winning documentary director. In 2017, he directed and produced the feature documentary Aida’s Secrets, which premiered at Hot Docs, won the Audience Award at Tel Aviv’s Docaviv Fes)val, and was theatrically distributed in the United States and Israel. Prior to his filmmaking career, Alon held management posi)ons in the so[ware and technology sector a[er being a serial entrepreneur.
Andrey Alistratov - Collaborator
Andrey Alistratov is a filmmaker and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work includes numerous narrative short films, documentaries, and commercial works that have won awards in national and international film festival circuits, as well as broadcasters such as MTV, VH1, and Japan’s NHK. Born in Donetsk, Ukraine and having moved to New York at an early age, Andrey has explored a number of career paths before finding filmmaking. After graduating Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Economics and Literature, he worked in financial asset research, music recording, and finally, film and video production. Andrey has been the head of cinematography for DIG Films, specializing in content for the music industry including live concert films, documentaries, and music videos for clients such as Universal Music and Atlantic Records. Together with partner Hazuki Aikawa, Andrey founded Noka Productions and Noka Films in 2010.
Gillian Laub - Collaborator
Gillian Laub is a regular contributor to many publications including The New York Times Magazine and TIME Magazine. She was selected for the World Press Photo's Joop Swart Master Class in 2003 and won Nikon's Storyteller Award in 2005. Laub was Aperture's Artist of the year following the publication of her first monograph in 2007. In 2009, her photo essay and multimedia piece about segregated proms in Georgia was published in The New York Times Magazine. Inspired by this body of work, she is currently directing and producing a feature length documentary about race in the American South. Laub currently lives in New York. Her art work is widely exhibited and collected.
Radley Studios - Los Angeles, CA
Radley officially began in 2010. A band of creatives with a shared history and diverse backgrounds came together for one singular mission: create to connect. That mission still drives what we do today. As a team, we create through story and design in television, branded content and experiences. We call the Wiltern in Koreatown, Los Angeles our home. It’s an inspiring spot for our crew with a lot of great history and singular style. It’s also at the crossroads of some unbelievable great cultural crossover, collaboration and creativity. Our studio is a home and a lab. We concept, design, experiment, produce, post, and deliver A+ material - that’s dolby vision certified, all under one mint green roof. Our greatest joy is collaborating with wildly talented, passionate and purpose driven people. We live to create content that connects, excites, moves and inspires across all platforms.
Nadav Neuhaus - Collaborator
Nadav Neuhaus is a photojournalist and filmmaker living in Jersey City, NJ. He spent a decade in Israel working as a photojournalist before moving to the United States in 2005. Since then he has covered border issues in Juarez and Tijuana, scientists training to go to Mars, Innuit life near the north pole and the aftermath of the Japanese and Haitian earthquakes. His multimedia piece on rape in Haitian refugee camps was named a PDN Photo Annual selection for 2012. His photographs have been published in L’Express, VSD, Paris Match, Le Figaro, The Independent (London), The Times (London), TIME, Newsweek, Stern, The New York Times and National Geographic. He is currently focusing on short film commissions and completing production of The Search for the Golden Cage, a film about electrohypersensitvity.
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