Joseph Singer

Joe Singer is an award-winning film professional and film professor known for drawing on his media and genre-spanning expertise and experience to create remarkable visual stories and deliver energizing student experiences. His most recent work is visible in ProPublica documentaries (from 2018 to 2022) and he’s taught film production and post-production in classes and workshops for CUNY, Columbia, and the DX Academy. ProPublica’s first Emmy Award went to the short documentary “Rescuing Her Father from an Assisted Living Facility in the Coronavirus Epicenter,” which Singer edited (and co-produced, with Katie Campbell). Singer produced, directed and animated “John Henryism Explained,” winner of the National Magazine Award (Ellie) for Coverage of Race in America and also edited ProPublica’s first feature documentary “Unprotected,” a story of rape and corruption at an acclaimed American charity in Liberia and winner of the 2019 Edward R. Murrow award for Best News Documentary. Singer’s previous work includes editing the Oscar-nominated documentary “Knife Skills” (2018), editing the opening to “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” with director Spike Lee (2014), and editing Human Rights Watch’s Peabody Award-winning documentary “Gold’s Costly Dividend” (2012) and Webby Award-winning mini-documentary “Dear Obama: A Message from Victims of the LRA” (2011). Singer co-wrote and edited the feature documentary “8 Borders, 8 Days” (2017), the story of a single-mother Syrian refugee who makes a smuggler’s-raft journey from Turkey to Europe. He has numerous commercial spots, narrative shorts and feature film credits. Early in his career, Singer worked as an animator and director at Walt Disney Studios, where he received an Emmy nomination for the 1950s-style animated parody “How Things Werk.” Singer has an MFA in film production from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in design media arts from UCLA.