Jeff Arak is a journalist and filmmaker based in New York City. Over the past decade he has produced non-fiction TV and documentaries for HBO and PBS. His first film with Frontline, Life on Parole (2017), earned a Media for a Just Society Award and helped Frontline win the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards’ highest honor: the Gold Baton; awarded for the first time in ten years. His latest film with Frontline traces an investigation by the Venezuelan media outlet Armando.info over seven years and four continents as they pursue the corrupt contractor, Alex Saab.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Arak produced the Emmy-award winning news series AXIOS ON HBO. For two seasons, Arak covered the spread of COVID in Asia, the 2020 elections, the decline of unions in America, trends in transportation and the psychology of Trump rallies among other topics.

Arak is a graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He speaks Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.