Nathan Fitch

Filmmaker and visual journalist Nathan Fitch has had his award winning work published and broadcast by The New York Times Op Docs, Time magazine, The New Yorker, PBS, and NPR. A graduate of the Integrated Media Arts Program at Hunter College, Fitch had considered graduate school for some time, but was nervous about the prospect of taking on debt for another degree. “I decided to apply to Hunter because it seemed like a great educational option and a well-respected program that would not entail taking on a mountain of debt,” he said. At Hunter Fitch joined a community that he says has been pivotal to expanding his professional opportunities. Beyond these connections, Fitch found an incredibly valuable community of faculty, students, and resources. “There is a generosity in the Hunter IMA community that is rare to find in a competitive field such as filmmaking, and I prize it to this day,” he says.

Fitch’s feature directorial debut, Island Soldier, won a number of film festival awards, and was broadcast on PBS in 2018. As an MFA student, Fitch was awarded Hunter’s James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, as well as a Picture of the Year International award. His most recent project, Drawing Life, is a partly animated documentary about the legendary cartoonist George Booth, and was published by The New Yorker after screening at a number of film festivals. Fitch is currently in production on Essential Islanders, a project exploring the impacts of the global pandemic upon a group of climate change migrants in Arkansas. He is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, and is an Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at the New School.