Lisa Bloch

I’m an executive producer and showrunner working across documentary, unscripted, cultural, and crime programming. I turn high-stakes subjects and logistically demanding productions into stories with emotional depth and cinematic quality.

I’ve delivered work for Netflix, National Geographic, Discovery, A&E, History, Red Bull TV, MTV, and Nickelodeon, with credits on 19 shows and films. My work includes nine seasons and 93 episodes of To Catch a Smuggler, plus its spinoff, and Storm Chasers, which helped define Discovery’s high-risk documentary brand.

From active tornadoes and the summit of the Matterhorn to maximum-security prisons and remote communities, I’ve led teams of more than 50 through complex productions. I balance creative ambition with budgets, schedules, client relationships, cross-border requirements, and real-time safety decisions—building teams that can adapt and deliver.

I’m also brought in when a production has stalled in post and the narrative isn’t working. I help the team find the story, rebuild the edit, and get the project back on track.

My career began in arts education, teaching filmmaking to children in New York and producing a youth documentary across five countries for Nickelodeon’s Emmy Award-winning millennium broadcast. My first film credit was art directing an independent feature that screened at Cannes.

Those foundations still shape my work: a cinematic eye, a commitment to craft at every budget level, and humanity and compassion for the people in front of the camera.