Brian Biegel
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Brian Biegel is a multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker with special interests in True Crime, History, Lifestyle, Celebrity and Sports. His first produced feature documentary was based on his best-selling book, "Miracle Ball: My Hunt for the Shot Heard 'Round the World" and debuted on Discovery & Velocity in 2012. Biegel, wrote , produced & directed the film.
Mr. Biegel conceived, wrote and directed a documentary called, "The Counterfeiter" for the Emmy award-winning ESPN series "30 for 30". "The Counterfeiter" premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and is available to watch as part of the ESPN 30 for 30 strand.
In 2015-2016 Mr. Biegel conceived and developed a doc-series called "Sports Detectives" which was picked up by the Smithsonian Channel . He worked as an executive producer, writer and director on the episodic series which was produced by Left/Right.
Biegel's book & documentary, Miracle Ball, was optioned for a motion picture in 2023 with a screenplay written by John J. McLaughlin. Mr. McLaughlin wrote the Oscar-winning film, "Black Swan", as well as highly acclaimed movies "Hitchcock", starring Anthony Hopkins & Helen Mirren, "Parker", starring Jennifer Lopez and several others.
From 2021-2023 Biegel has been developing a documentary centered on an untold story about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a multi-part doc-series, revealing the founding fathers of the World Wide Web and an aviation doc-series.
Biegel is published in the New York Times, writing Op-Eds and directing/producing Op-Docs.
Mr. Biegel's pro Bono work includes making a documentary called "Getting My Child Back: Fighting Autism", which won the Grand Jury prize at the 2006 NY International Film Festival. He is based out of his hometown of NYC.
Mr. Biegel conceived, wrote and directed a documentary called, "The Counterfeiter" for the Emmy award-winning ESPN series "30 for 30". "The Counterfeiter" premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and is available to watch as part of the ESPN 30 for 30 strand.
In 2015-2016 Mr. Biegel conceived and developed a doc-series called "Sports Detectives" which was picked up by the Smithsonian Channel . He worked as an executive producer, writer and director on the episodic series which was produced by Left/Right.
Biegel's book & documentary, Miracle Ball, was optioned for a motion picture in 2023 with a screenplay written by John J. McLaughlin. Mr. McLaughlin wrote the Oscar-winning film, "Black Swan", as well as highly acclaimed movies "Hitchcock", starring Anthony Hopkins & Helen Mirren, "Parker", starring Jennifer Lopez and several others.
From 2021-2023 Biegel has been developing a documentary centered on an untold story about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a multi-part doc-series, revealing the founding fathers of the World Wide Web and an aviation doc-series.
Biegel is published in the New York Times, writing Op-Eds and directing/producing Op-Docs.
Mr. Biegel's pro Bono work includes making a documentary called "Getting My Child Back: Fighting Autism", which won the Grand Jury prize at the 2006 NY International Film Festival. He is based out of his hometown of NYC.