Jeff Plunkett

Jeffrey Plunkett is a documentary director/writer/producer. In 2016, he produced Showtime's weekly documentary series The Circus, which followed the 2016 presidential election. In 2015 he directed a series about social entrepreneurs around the world for Red Bull TV. Previously, he produced & directed The Opposition, a documentary for ESPN's 30-for-30 series about the collision of soccer and politics after Chile's 1973 coup, and Borderland, a four-part series for Al Jazeera America about the realities of illegal immigration. During his tenure on Current TV's Vanguard documentary series, he embedded with the far-right English Defense League to illustrate Europe's growing fear of Islam, traveled to the hills of Oaxaca to explore the roots of America's illegal immigration problem, posed as a soccer agent in Ghana and France to understand the illegal trade in young African players, and was thrown out of an tobacco industry conference in Jakarta while documenting Big Tobacco's aggressive push into the developing world. His thesis film from Berkeley's journalism school, Playing the News, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.