Pedro Kos

Academy Award nominee Pedro Kos most recently co-directed The White House Effect with Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, which premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. His fiction film debut In Our Blood premiered at the 2024 Fantasia International Film Festival and distributed by Utopia Distribution. Pedro co-directed the Netflix Original Documentary Short Lead Me Home (2021) with Jon Shenk, which was nominated for an Academy Award. He also directed, wrote, and edited the documentary feature film Rebel Hearts, which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and was released worldwide by Discovery+. Prior to that he wrote and produced Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer's Netflix Original Documentary The Great Hack which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA award. His feature directorial debut Bending the Arc (co-directed with Kief Davidson) premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Previously, he edited Jehane Noujaim's Academy Award nominee The Square which earned Pedro an Emmy Award for Best Editing for a Non-Fiction program, Lucy Walker's Academy Award nominee Waste Land and The Crash Reel (2013 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award winner), Jon Shenk's The Island President (2011 TIFF Documentary People's Choice Award winner) among others. Pedro is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and received his B.A. in Theater Directing from Yale University.