Zachary Stauffer
Director

Zachary Stauffer (producer/director/DP) is a documentary filmmaker and journalist based at the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley. “Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn?” is his first feature documentary.

From 2009-2015, he was intimately involved with all of the IRP’s work for PBS Frontline, first as an associate producer and later as a producer. Throughout that time, he’s also been the IRP’s primary director of photography. A partial sampling of that work includes “Bigger Than Vegas” (2015, Producer/DP), “Money and March Madness” (2011, Producer/DP), “Murdoch’s Scandal” (2012, Field Producer/DP), “The Child Cases” (2011, Field Producer/DP), “Post Mortem” (2011, AP/DP), the DuPont award-winning “Rape In The Fields” (2013, DP) and its follow ups “Rape On The Night Shift” (2015, DP) and “Trafficked in America” (2018, DP). Stauffer has also served as a DP on a wide array of independent documentary films and projects seen on PBS, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, BBC, National Geographic, Univision, Telemundo, and others. His short documentary, “A Day Late In Oakland” (2008), about the murder of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey, was nominated for two IDA Awards, screened at film festivals across the country, and was broadcast on KQED in San Francisco.

He began his career at Northern Light Productions in Boston. There he served as co-producer of “The Special: A Story of an American Anthem” (2005), which premiered at the Nashville Film Festival and also screened at Silver Docs (now AFI Docs) and other festivals. Stauffer is a graduate of Boston College and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he is currently a lecturer.