Peter Decherney

Peter Decherney is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, fine art photographer, and author. He holds the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Chair in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and Director of the Penn Global Documentary Institute.

 

Peter is the author or editor of seven books including HOLLYWOOD’S COPYRIGHT WARS: FROM EDISON TO THE INTERNET, HOLLYWOOD: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION, and ENDLESS EXODUS: THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN ETHIOPIA, a book of photography.

 

His many films include the award-winning DAYS BETWEEN REST and THE CAVE SYNAGOGUE chronicling pivotal moments in the history of the Uganda’s Abayudaya community; DREAMING OF JERUSALEM (co-directed with Sosena Solomon), a Discovery+ original about the Jewish community in Ethiopia, and POSTIGO EXPRESS, the story of Basque photojournalist Fernando Postigo.