Nancy Schiesari is an Emmy-nominated cinematographer who has shot dozens of documentaries around the world for The Learning Channel, Discovery, ABC, British Film Institute, BBC and Channel 4. Her most recent project was a profile of Martin Scorsese for BBC 4, which was broadcast in January 2003 to coincide with the release of Gangs of New York.

Schiesari was nominated in 2002 for an Emmy for her work on the television series The Human Face with John Cleese and Elizabeth Hurley. She produced and directed Green Flutes [Channel 4, UK] and "Loaves and Fishes" for The Territory [PBS]. Other credits in documentary include The Human Body [1998] for BBC, ABC and The Learning Channel; Six Degrees of Freedom [1997], profiles of virtual reality designers, for Silicon Graphics; and Warrior Marks [1994] for Channel 4, shot on location in Africa with Alice Walker. In features, she worked on the all-women camera crew of Sally Potter’s first feature, The Gold Diggers [1983] shot in Iceland, and then became a DP on Partition [1988], featured at the Berlin Film Festival and other prestigious festivals and Poco Loco [1994], with Debra Koons Garcia. She currently teaches cinematography at the University of Texas at Austin and shoots and directs freelance assignments.