Dylan Nelson is a producer, director, writer, and occasional shooter of documentary films. Her current in-progress projects include The Liegnitz Plot, which seeks to solve a Holocaust-era mystery, and The Stolen, which explores the story of children kidnapped during the 1970s-80s Argentine military dictatorship. Most recently, she produced the documentary feature Groomed, about child sexual assault, which was released in 2021 on Discovery +. She also contributed a chapter on archival filmmaking toReclaiming Popular Documentary (2021), a scholarly collection from Indiana University Press.
Nelson's other credits as producer or director include the feature documentaries Merchants of Doubt (Telluride/Sony Pictures Classics 2014), The Hollywood Complex (Hot Docs 2011/Showtime 2012), Soundtrack for a Revolution (Tribeca/Cannes 2009, PBS's American Experience 2011), and Nanking (Sundance 2007/HBO 2008). Both Soundtrack for a Revolution and Nanking were short-listed for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Nelson produced and co-wrote "Last Dance at Johnson's Barn" (2018), a short documentary that premiered in competition at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Her honors include an Emmy nomination, three International Documentary Association Award nominations, and a Producers Guild of America nomination for Producer of the Year in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures. In 2019, Nelson was selected as one of only 20 documentary producers worldwide to attend the Sundance Creative Producing Summit. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America.
