Hilan Warshaw - Filmmaker

HILAN WARSHAW is an Emmy Award-winning film director and writer. He has produced and directed internationally broadcast documentaries including Wagner’s Jews (WDR/ARTE, PBS-WNET, Israel’s Channel 8, Deutsche Welle and others); Secret Song with Renée Fleming and the Emerson String Quartet (PBS-AllArts, SVT, Medici TV, Allegro HD, Czech TV, EuroArts); Through the Darkness (ORF, SVT, YLE, Medici TV); My Boléro (PBS-GPB, Medici TV; 2024 Southeast Emmy winner, Best Arts/ Entertainment Long Form); In the Key of Bach (PBS-GPB); Mahler in New York (SVT, Czech TV and others); The Faces of Carmen (Westdeutscher Rundfunk/ARD and others); and Honorable Mr. Morgenthau (winner, Kadima Jury Prize, 2026 Miami Jewish Film Festival; upcoming theatrical distribution). Hilan’s research essays about music and film, about topics ranging from Richard Wagner to the film montage theories of Sergei Eisenstein, have been published in volumes from Cambridge University Press (for which he wrote six entries in the Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia), McFarland Press, Königshausen & Neumann and others. Musically trained as a violinist and orchestral conductor, he frequently directs multicamera concert captures for ensembles including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra, and he wrote and hosted Piece by Piece, the ASO's Emmy-nominated web series about the stories behind great music. He has taught film and film-studies courses at Western Carolina University and Barnard College. A Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow and LABA NYC Arts Fellow, he has served as a juror for the Emmys and International Emmy Awards. He holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and studied orchestral conducting at Mannes College of Music.