Debi Wisch

Debi Wisch is an acclaimed documentary film producer known for her art-focused projects. She has earned numerous honors including an Emmy nomination for the critically-lauded The Price of Everything. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was later licensed by HBO and 50 international markets. Wisch also produced the award-winning documentary The Art of Making It, which gave a behind-the-scenes look at emerging artists and won the Audience Award at SXSW 2022 and Love, Cecil, a biopic about Cecil Beaton, which premiered at the 2016 Telluride Film Festival. She premiered Crossing the River, a documentary short about the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor siblings, in 2024. Currently, Wisch is completing a biopic on the trailblazing artist and activist Marilyn Minter, that will premiere this Fall. She is also producing Bury Me Standing, which examines the past, present and future of Confederate monuments through the prism of renowned curator Hamza Walker’s 2025 exhibition MONUMENTS, which will premiere in early 2026. Additionally, Wisch is producing A Test of Civilization, a documentary thriller revisiting the events leading up to World War II that definitively shows who knew what when. Beyond her production work, Wisch serves on the boards of several arts organizations including YoungArts, Film at Lincoln Center, the Director’s Advisory Board at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center and the public art board at Stanford University. She is also on the Tate’s North American Acquisition Committee and the Serpentine’s American Committee and supports numerous organizations that specifically focus on emerging artists and arts education.