With his signature blend of scientific acumen, candor and integrity, Dr. Anthony Fauci became America’s most unlikely cultural icon during COVID-19. A world-renowned infectious disease specialist and the longest-serving public health leader in Washington, D.C., he has valiantly overseen the U.S. response to 50 years’ worth of epidemics, including HIV / AIDS, SARS and Ebola. FAUCI is an unprecedented portrait of one of our most vital public servants, whose work saved millions while he faced threats from anonymous adversaries. Directed by Emmy winners John Hoffman (The Weight of the Nation, Sleepless in America) and Janet Tobias (Unseen Enemy), the film is executive produced by Academy Award winner Dan Cogan (Icarus) and two-time Academy Award nominee Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?, The Farm: Angola, USA). The documentary features insights from President George W. Bush, Bill Gates, Bono, former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Burwell, former national security advisor Susan Rice, National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Tom Frieden and key AIDS activists, plus Dr. Fauci’s family, friends and former patients.

John Hoffman is a six-time Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker whose most recent films include “The Antidote” (Amazon Prime, 2020); “Out of Many, One,” which premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2018, followed by Netflix; and “Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, followed by Discovery. Much of Hoffman’s work as a filmmaker has focused on the key health issues of our time, and all have been produced in partnership with the NIH, including “The Weight of the Nation” (HBO), “Addiction” (HBO), “The Alzheimer’s Project” (HBO), “Sleepless in America” (National Geographic) and “First in Human” (Discovery) — a six-hour series set in the world’s largest research hospital, the NIH’s building 10. In addition to making films, Hoffman has also been a network executive. He was the executive vice president of Documentaries and Specials for Discovery from 2015-2018, after nearly two decades at HBO, where he was the vice president of Documentary Programming.

Janet Tobias is an Emmy® and Peabody Award winner and a two-time Writers Guild of America nominee. Tobias made her feature documentary debut in Toronto in 2012 with “No Place On Earth,” which Variety called “a substantial contribution to Holocaust cinema.” In 2017, “Unseen Enemy,” a prescient look at the 21st-century threat of epidemics, debuted at CPH:DOX and has since been broadcast on six continents in over ten languages. Tobias’ most recent feature, “Memory Games” (Netflix), debuted at DOC NYC in 2018. A long-time journalist, Tobias’ career includes stints at NBC, ABC and PBS, covering a range of domestic and international stories. Since 2001, her company Sierra / Tango Productions has produced documentaries on a range of pressing social issues. In 2019, she co-founded the nonprofit Global Health Reporting Center (GHRC), which is dedicated to covering the key health issues of our time. In the last year and a half, GHRC has produced 11 pieces for “PBS NewsHour” and a feature television documentary “Race For The Vaccine” for BBC / CNN that reviewers called “gripping and inspiring” (Telegraph), “strikes the right balance between stories and science” (Sunday Times), and “unmissable” (Daily Mail). Among Tobias’ awards are an Emmy, a Peabody, two American Bar Association Silver Gavels, two Cine Golden Eagles, two Casey Medals, the Jackson Hole Science Media Award, a National Headliner Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, and honorable mention RFK Journalism and Overseas Press Awards. Tobias was nominated for WGA Awards for her writing on both “No Place On Earth” and “Unseen Enemy.”