Pete Chatmon(I)

With a deft ability to balance both half-hour single camera comedies and one-hour dramas, Pete Chatmon has directed over 50 episodes of television including HBO Max's The Flight Attendant, Insecure, Silicon Valley, Minx, and Love Life, Netflix's You, Paramount Plus' Fatal Attraction, NBC's American Auto, ABC's Grey's Anatomy and Black-ish, Starz' Blindspotting, FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the Apple TV+ series Mythic Quest. He is an NAACP Image Awards Nominee for Outstanding Directing In A Comedy Series for his work on The Flight Attendant. Chatmon is in development on The Education of Matt Barnes with Showtime, for which he will direct the pilot and serve as executive producer. He also served as co-executive producer and producing director on Reasonable Doubt, the first project to be produced via Hulu's Onyx Collective. Upcoming episodes include HBO Max's Dead Boy Detectives, Hulu's Interior Chinatown, and Mere Mortals, the AppleTV+ Mythic Quest spinoff.

His debut feature as writer/director, Premium, starred Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, and Hill Harper, and premiered on Showtime after a limited theatrical run. Chatmon also wrote, produced, and directed 761st, a documentary on the first Black tank battalion in WWII, narrated by Andre Braugher. Through TheDirector, his Digital Studio, he has directed, shot, and edited content for advertising agencies and Fortune 500 brands.

Chatmon's career began in 2001 with the Sundance selection of his NYU thesis film, 3D, starring Kerry Washington. His most recent short film, BlackCard, premiered on HBO, and his narrative podcast, Wednesday Morning, engaged voters around the 2020 election. His podcast, Let's Shoot! with Pete Chatmon is available on YouTube, iTunes, and all podcast platforms. In January 2022 his book, Transitions: A Director's Journey + Motivational Handbook was released by Michael Wiese Productions. Follow him on Instagram @petechatmon and @letsshootwithpetechatmon.