Scott Sinkler is an award-winning documentary producer/director and director of photography. He has also worked extensively for television, ad agencies and corporate and non-profit clients.
Sinkler served as director of photography for Netflix’ docuseries Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror, Katie Couric’s Fed Up and PBS’s Ice Warriors, as well as for television series such as PBS’s Wide Angle, The Tony Awards Show, Egg: The Arts Show, WNET’s City Arts & City Life—for which he won two New York Emmy awards—as well as Bloomberg Television’s series Muse, Game Changers, Risk Takers and Innovators.
He has also produced and directed films that have been chosen for the Whitney Biennial and has a film in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. His work has won awards at international film festivals and has aired on US and foreign TV, cable and streaming networks.
Sinkler has produced and directed arts programs, corporate media, as well as commercials and promotional materials for Broadway shows, including Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Movin’ Out, Thou Shalt Not, Gypsy, and the Tony Award-winning Contact.
He has written for books and magazines on documentary filmmaking and periodically gives a master class in documentary camerawork at New York University.