Nina Gilden Seavey is an Emmy Award-winning documentarian with a nearly 40-year career in the non-fiction world. Her projects can be seen in theaters, on television, and in museum exhibitions, heard in podcasts, and read in publications across the globe. She is the President of Seavey Media, LLC. seaveymedia.com

Seavey was the Founding Director of The Documentary Center in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University which she led from 1990-2020. She holds the academic rank of Research Professor Emerita of History and of Media and Public Affairs. From 2017-2019, Seavey was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She teaches workshops for many organizations and is a frequent Professorial Lecturer at the Maine Media Workshops and College.

Seavey was the Founding Director of SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival (subsequently known as AFI Docs). She continued with the festival as Executive Producer, strand programmer, and senior member of the management team. Under her stewardship, the festival became the largest documentary festival in the US.

Among her previous film and television works are: A PARALYZING FEAR, THE BALLAD OF BERING STRAIT, THE MATADOR, 4TH AND GOAL, PARABLES OF WAR, among many others. Her IMDB page can be found here

Seavey’s works have won numerous awards including five National Emmy nominations (one statue awarded), the Erik Barnouw Prize for Best Historical Film of the Year, The Golden Hugo, Cine Special Jury Prize, The Telly Award, The Italian National Olympic Cup for Best Sports Film, The Peter C Rollins Prize for Best Film in American Culture, among many others.

Seavey most recent podcast is the 8-part My Fugitive, produced by Pineapple Street Studios. The series was named one of the top five podcast by the International Documentary Association (IDA), received a Webby Award nomination for Best Historical Podcast, won a Signal Award for Best Historical Podcast and was named a Top Ten Podcast for 2021 by The Atlantic Magazine.

Seavey is a prolific author with non-fiction essays appearing in The Sycamore Review, Pangyrus, The Nassau Review, and Minerva Rising. In 2024, Seavey’s definitive chapter on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, “True Conspiracies: The Legacy of J. Edgar Hoover, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Earl Ray,” was published in American Conspiracism: An Exploration from Routledge Press. In 2023 Seavey authored “Surveillance and Subversion of Student Activists 1967-1970: Standoff in St. Louis,” in Left in the Midwest. From University of Missouri Press.

Seavey has received many professional accolades including being named one of the top 50 professors of journalism in the U.S. She was named a “Woman of Vision” by Women in Film and Video and recognized for her “Outstanding Service to the Industry” by Discovery Communications.