Eric Daniel Metzgar is a Brooklyn, New York-based filmmaker. He owns and operates Merigold Moving Pictures. (www.merigoldmovingpictures.com)

In 2006, he completed his first documentary feature-length film, The Chances of the World Changing, which he directed, produced, shot and edited. For his direction of the film, Metzgar was nominated for a 2007 Independent Spirit Award. The film was broadcast as part of PBS’s POV series in 2007. It has screened in numerous festivals around the world and has won several awards. (For information and to purchase the DVD, visit: www.thechancesoftheworldchanging.com)

Metzgar’s second documentary, Life. Support. Music., is still traveling the film festival circuit, where it has won the Audience Choice Award at the Boston Independent Film Festival and the ENEL Cuore Award for Best Social Documentary at the Rome International Film Festival. The film will be broadcast on PBS’s POV series in the summer of 2009. In February of 2009, the film will screen theatrically in New York City at Cinema Village. (For information and to purchase the DVD, visit: www.lifesupportmusic.org)

Metzgar’s short film, Beholder, created for the 2008 International Documentary Challenge, won the “Best Original Vision Award,” “Best Writing” and “Best Use of First Person Genre.”

Reporter is Metzgar’s third feature documentary, which he directed, shot, edited and narrated. This is the fourth time that Metzgar has collaborated with composer Eric Liebman. (For more about Liebman, visit: www.liebmanmusic.com)

Metzgar is also an award-winning cinematographer and has shot for several Oscar-nominated directors. He is currently developing new fiction and non-fiction material.