Craig Renaud

Craig Renaud and his late brother Brent (aka the Renaud Brothers) are best known for their verité documentaries that tell stories of people caught in the middle of conflicts around the world. Brent Renaud was attempting to do just that when he became the first American journalist killed in Ukraine in 2022.

The Renaud Brothers learned how to survive in war zones while working with legendary filmmaker Jon Alpert. They spent the next two decades filming in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Egypt, Libya, Haiti, Mexico, and Honduras. They were the first filmmakers to embed with soldiers for an entire deployment at war, when they filmed their ten part series Off to War in Iraq. The brothers were also the first to document the lack of armor for National Guard soldiers. Off to War won an IDA Award for Best Series and an Overseas Press Club Award.

The Renaud’s won their first DuPont Columbia Award and Edward R. Murrow Award for a documentary filmed in Haiti that followed two injured children throughout the earthquake in 2010. They won their second DuPont for their groundbreaking investigative reporting on Mexican cartels’ gun smuggling across the U.S. border. They won a Peabody Award for Last Chance High, which followed children for five years in Chicago’s dangerous West Side. The Renaud Brothers’ HBO films Dope Sick Love and Meth Storm placed viewers on the frontlines of America’s drug epidemic while humanizing the tragically addicted.

Craig Renaud and his family founded the Brent Renaud Foundation to carry on Brent’s legacy of mentoring young filmmakers. To learn more; www.brentrenaudfoundation.org, www.renaudbrothers.com.