About Thea
Thea Piltzecker is a documentary filmmaker and journalist based in New York.
Her work has aired on PBS, CNN, Vice, and NBC, and she has worked with award-winning directors Rachel Boynton, Peter Schnall, and Tom Yellin, among others. Thea’s reporting spans the criminal justice system (“Death Row Stories”), politics (“Firing Line With Margaret Hoover”), and immigration (“America By the Numbers”). She is the co-director of the 2017 film “A Table for All,” which follows the lives of asylum seekers during the first months of the Trump administration.
Thea is an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School, where she teaches a course on Israel-Palestine. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School (MS in documentary journalism) and Bard College (BA in human rights and literature).
Resume available upon request.