Jethro Waters is a multi-award winning Writer, Director, Producer, and Cinematographer. He is also a lecturer in the film department at Brooklyn College.
Waters’ documentary feature debut F11 AND BE THERE was among the New York Times Critic’s Picks in 2020, won an Emmy Award, screened in select theaters internationally, and is distributed on many major streaming platforms.
His music video work with artists like John Cale, Angel Olsen, among many others, has been featured in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Billboard, The New York Times, Spin, Pitchfork, NPR and reached millions of viewers across the globe.
He makes his narrative feature debut with GUNFIGHTER PARADISE in 2024. Read the 9/10 movie review at Film Threat. Waters wrote, produced, and directed this dark comedy / horror featuring Jessica Hecht, Valient Himself, and Executive Produced by Nancy Buirski. Legendary Renato Casaro hand painted the movie poster.
He also directed the short film TROPICALIA for Groupo Cisneros and The Four Seasons in the Dominican Republic.
Waters directed a series of short documentaries on architecture, design, and sustainability, working with architects and luminaries like Tadao Ando, Estudio Ramos, Nacho Figueras, and others.
His short experimental film YENE FIKIR opened at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, with a live score performed by acclaimed musician Natalie Prass. His short film REMAINS, a collaboration with legendary Magnum and Life photographer Burk Uzzle, was selected for the Civil Rights museum exhibition “I Am a Man” curated by William R. Ferris, which exhibited in art museums internationally.