Joshua Zeman

Joshua Zeman is an American documentary film director, writer and producer. He is best known for his documentaries Cropsey, The Killing Season and Murder Mountain. He most recently directed and produced The Sons of Sam for Netflix. He is represented by UTA.

Education
Zeman graduated from Pennsylvania's Lehigh University in 1994.

Career
Zeman's debut feature documentary, Cropsey, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009 and was a Critics' Pick with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Roger Ebert. In 2011, he directed the short film, The Best Man for the Job, starring David Call. In 2012, he received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and won the 2013 Djerassi Residency Award from the San Francisco Film Society. He has co-produced or produced films including The Station Agent, Mysterious Skin, Choking Man and Against the Current.

In 2016, Zeman directed a documentary television series, The Killing Season, for A&E about the case of the Long Island Serial Killer. He also directed another series Murder Mountain, which premiered on Fusion TV and Netflix in 2018.

In 2021, Zeman directed a documentary television series, The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness, for Netflix. Most recently, he directed The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52, executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio which was released theatrically by Bleecker Street.