TUCKER CAPPS

Tucker Capps is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, producer and director from Portland, Oregon.  He has filmed projects in Tanzania, Alaska, the Czech Republic, China and all over the lower 48 states.  His first feature documentary GOOLD’S GOLD was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at the Genart Film Festival in New York.  A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his fiction has been featured in Best New American Voices, and he continues to write for documentaries and television.   

As an editor, he works primarily on documentary features and series. In 2017, he edited episodes of the Emmy-winning series LEAH REMINI: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH. In 2020, he was lead editor for the major ABC special DAVID BLAINE: THE MAGIC WAY — collaborating directly with David Blaine during early days of the Covid 19 worldwide outbreak — and began editing the YouTube Originals series BOOKTUBE. The BOOKTUBE episode “Jason Reynolds: Honesty, Joy, and Anti-Racism” garnered an Emmy nomination in 2021. In 2021 and 2022, he edited two documentary series telling the stories of sexual assault survivors: multiple Emmy-nominated WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY and the Critics Choice Award-winning SECRETS OF PLAYBOY. Most recently, he has edited a forthcoming documentary series about deadly fraternity hazing and GOD & COUNTRY (2024), a feature-length documentary about the rise of Christian nationalism in the US, directed by Dan Partland and executive produced by actor, producer and director Rob Reiner.

As a producer-director, he has produced an array of television series for several networks, including A&E's Emmy-winning series INTERVENTION and Showtime's TIME OF DEATH, which won the International Documentary Association's annual award for Best Limited Series.  In 2017, he produced episodes of FASTEST CAR, a “top-ten most-binged” Netflix Original Series in 2018, and completed work on National Geographic's WITHOUT A NET: THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN AMERICA, a new feature documentary that he wrote, produced and co-directed in collaboration with Oscar nominee Rory Kennedy (LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM), with voiceover by Jamie Foxx.  

Festival and Award Recognition

Emmy Nomination at the 48th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (BOOKTUBE)
Screening at the 2017 New York Film Festival (WITHOUT A NET)
Grand Jury Prize at the Gen Art Film Festival (GOOLD'S GOLD)
Special Jury Mention at the Austin Film Festival (GOOLD'S GOLD)
Official Selection of True-False Film Festival (GOOLD'S GOLD)
Hot Docs Forum Selection (GOOLD'S GOLD)
IFP Spotlight on Documentaries Selection (GOOLD'S GOLD)
Teaching-Writing Fellowship (Iowa Writers' Workshop)
Short story "Alice" published in Best New American Voices  
The Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts (Yale University)