USA

Daniel Junge is an Oscar award winning documentary filmmaker. His first feature-length film, Chiefs, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival and broadcast nationally on PBS. His subsequent feature, Iron Ladies of Liberia, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and aired on over 50 broadcasters worldwide including PBS and the BBC. They Killed Sister Dorothy, his third feature film, won the Audience and Grand Jury Prizes at the South by Southwest Film Festival before broadcasting on HBO and earning a 2010 Emmy nomination for Best Investigative Journalism. Junge’s film The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short in 2010. His film Saving Face, also for HBO, won Best Documentary Short in 2012. In 2012, he was extended a membership invitation to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Junge is an alumnus of Cheyenne East High School and Colorado College. In 2015, Junge directed Being Evel, a documentary on the real story behind the myth of American icon Robert "Evel" Knievel and his legacy. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, broadcast on The History Channel, and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Sports Documentary in 2016. Junge also produced Liyana, a 2017 documentary following orphaned Swazi children as they create a narrative which is then brought to life using animation—and Hondros, on war photographer Chris Hondros. Junge served as Executive Producer and episode director on AMC's Secret History of Comics.

Filmography

Chiefs (2002)
We Are Phamaly (2003)
Big Blue Bear (2005)
Iron Ladies of Liberia (2007)
They Killed Sister Dorothy (2008)
Come Back to Sudan (2008)
No Strings (2008)
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner (2009)
One Day (2011)
Saving Face (2012)
Fight Church (2012)
Building Bridges for Peace (2014)
Being Evel (2015)
11/8/16 (2017)
Secret History of Comics (2017)
Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars (2019)