Xan Parker

Xan Parker is a seasoned documentary producer, most recently of National Geographic's Rebuilding Paradise (2020). The cautionary tale of the emotional effects of climate change is directed by Ron Howard and premiered at Sundance 2020. Previously, Xan produced Discovery's Tigerland (2019) which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and was directed by Academy Award winner Ross Kauffman, about wildlife conservation. She was show-runner of filmmaker Ivy Meeropol's critically acclaimed series The Hill (2007, which aired on the Sundance Channel, and was nominated for a 2007 IDA award for Best Series. Xan produced; CNNFilms' The End: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House (2017) directed by Toby Oppenheimer; Celia Maysles' Wild Blue Yonder; and the short The Contested Convention (2016), in association with FiveThirtyEight and ESPNFilms, about the 1976 Republican National Convention where Ronald Reagan first became a Presidential contender. Xan was consulting producer on Rachel Boynton's Big Men (2013), and Kristi Jacobson's & Lori Silverbush's A Place at the Table (2012) which was produced by Motto Pictures, Participant and released by Magnolia Films. She was Supervising Producer of Racing Dreams (2009), a coming-of-age story set in on the go-kart racing circuit, directed by Academy Award nominee Marshall Curry, which aired on PBS series P.O.V., and won Best Documentary at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and garnered 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. She cherishes her first producing credit on the Academy Award nominated LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001), about the legacy of slavery in the Mississippi Delta, which premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, won a duPont-Columbia Award, and aired on HBO.