Neil makes pictures.
He’s a Pulitzer, Emmy, and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and journalist who’s worked in 30 countries.
He built his foundation in visual storytelling at the BBC in London before producing on the front lines with Al Jazeera during the Arab Spring. He went on to work on films for VICE, HBO, and The New York Times, focusing on the Middle East and Latin America.
His documentary So They Know We Existed (2021), which he produced and directed for The New York Times, earned a Peabody Award for its portrait of life in Gaza. He directed Scout Master (2022), a feature documentary investigating a triple murder that shook a small Arkansas community in 1997 — the first feature-length production in Al Jazeera's Fault Lines series, which premiered at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. In 2024, he was part of the New York Times team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and in 2025, he received an Emmy Award for his reporting on Gaza.
He’s also a painter and a writer, working across screenplays and short stories.