Davis Guggenheim is a critically acclaimed, Academy Award-winning director and producer, who’s early work includes many television dramas such as DEADWOOD, NYPD BLUE and 24. He transitioned into directing non-fiction films with THE FIRST YEAR, which aired on PBS in 2001 and won a Peabody Award. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, featuring former Vice President Al Gore, was theatrically distributed by Paramount in 2006, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary. IT MIGHT GET LOUD, featuring Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White was theatrically distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in 2009. Guggenheim also directed Barack Obama’s biographical film for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, as well as Obama’s 30-minute primetime infomercial.

Guggenheim’s latest film, WAITING FOR SUPERMAN, due out in the fall of 2010, has been given theatrical distribution by Paramount. It premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and took home the Best US Documentary Audience Award.