Scott Sinkler is an award-winning documentary producer/director, director of photography and editor. He has also worked extensively for television, ad agencies, news and corporate and non-profit clients.
photo: Richard Trammell
Sinkler served as director of photography for Netflix’ docuseries Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror, Katie Couric and Stephanie Soechtig’s Fed Up and PBS’s Ice Warriors, as well as for television series such as PBS’s Wide Angle, The Tony Awards Show, Egg: The Arts Show, WNET’s City Arts & City Life—for which he won two New York Emmy awards—as well as Bloomberg Television’s series Muse, Game Changers, Risk Takers and Innovators.
His documentary Inside Life Outside was chosen for the Whitney Biennial and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. His work has won awards at international film festivals and has aired on US and foreign TV, cable and streaming networks.
The feature documentary Anxiety Club, for which Sinkler was a producer and director of photography, premiered in 2024 at the DOC NYC Film Festival and will launch on Jolt in August 2025.
Sinkler has produced and directed arts programs, corporate media, as well as commercials and promotional materials for non-profits and Broadway shows, including Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Movin’ Out, Thou Shalt Not, Gypsy, and the Tony Award-winning Contact.
He has written for books and magazines on documentary filmmaking and periodically gives a master class in documentary camerawork at New York University.