Lucian Read is a multi-Emmy award-winning producer, director and cinematographer. Most recently, he directed the National Geographic Explorer special OPERATION ARCTIC CURE - a story of veterans traveling to the Arctic on a scientific and personal journey to help other veterans recover from PTSD. In 2024, he also premiered the feature length documentaries LIONS OF MESOPOTAMIA, an official selection of SXSW 2024, and PERSONAL COURAGE.  From 2014-2018, he was co-creator, show-runner and director of photography for the Norman Lear executive-produced EPIX docuseries AMERICA DIVIDED.  Read was awarded Emmys in 2015, 2017 and 2019 for investigations of deaths on the US-Mexico border and the use of child labor in agriculture. He was co-producer and principal cinematographer for the Primetime Emmy-winning first season of the climate change documentary series, YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. He directed the Occupy Wall Street feature documentary 99% — an official 2013 Sundance selection. Other cinematography credits include the feature films TIME TO CHOOSE, YEAR ONE and MAURIZIO CATTELAN: BE RIGHT BACK and the documentary series DEADLIEST CATCH and VICE on HBO. His photojournalism work during the Iraq and Afghan Wars appeared in such publications as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek and Rolling Stone. A large format photography book of this work, ALL OF WHICH I SAW, was published in 2019. Lucian is a member of the Directors Guild of America.

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