Jethro Waters

Jethro Waters is an Emmy Award Winning Director, Producer, Cinematographer, and Editor of films, television, and music videos. His directorial debut for a feature documentary film, F11 and Be There, was a New York Times Critic's Pick and won an Emmy Award for Best Documentary in the Cultural category at the Midsouth Emmy Awards 2021. Waters' work has been featured in many prestigious international film festivals, international art museums, and featured in publications like The New York Times, L.A. Weekly, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR, Billboard, among others. Waters has made music documentaries and music videos with Angel Olsen, Natalie Prass, Eric Slick, Valient Thorr, Matthew E. White, River Whyless, and a host of other musicians and artists. Waters' short experimental film Yene Fikir screened in the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, with a live score performed by acclaimed musician Natalie Prass. His short film Remains, another collaboration with Burk Uzzle, which was a featured part of the Civil Rights museum photography exhibition "I Am a Man" curated by William R. Ferris, exhibiting in The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C., as well as art museums in Montepellier, France, and Johannesburg, South Africa through 2018 and 2019. It was recently accepted for a national exhibition tour sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Alliance. Jethro Waters is the founder of Waters Film LTD, a production company specializing in narrative and documentary films and television.