Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Devin Tanchum has worked with documentary greats such as Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer, John Walter, and Alan Berliner. "The Russian Woodpecker (2015)" won the Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. His work has been featured on HBO, Amazon, and PBS.
He lives in New York and is married to the costume designer, Lauren Tanchum.