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Phil Wall is an award-winning writer, director, and showrunner working across features, series, and commercials. His work is rooted in nonfiction storytelling, with an interest in character-driven stories across scripted, documentary, and hybrid forms.

He is the showrunner, director, and writer of Soccer Meets America, a three-part docuseries produced with Vox Creative in association with Verizon and now streaming on The Roku Channel. His feature documentaries include The Book Keepers, winner of both the Jury Prize and Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Austin Film Festival, and The Standard, which debuted at #4 on the iTunes documentary chart.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

There’s an extremely natural quality to the footage...reinforced by an unobtrusive camera...the viewer frequently feels like an unseen spy gazing a peek...
— Douglas Laman reviewing THE BOOK KEEPERS for The Spool