Ray Nowosielski is a NAACP Image Award- and two-time-Emmy-nominated non-fiction filmmaker, journalist, writer, co-owner of Double Asterisk**, founder of True Stories. In 2021 iHeart Media and NowThis released True Stories’ first project, After the Uprising, a true-crime limited podcast series created by Ray and frequent collaborator John Duffy investigating mysterious deaths of Ferguson, MO activists who had helped spawn the Black Lives Matter movement. He directed and produced on the Emmy-nominated 3rd season of VICE on HBO and was a consulting producer for the pilot of the Amazon original series The New Yorker Presents, directed by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney, based on the journalism of Pulitzer-winner Lawrence Wright. Ray is best known for his feature film documentary collaborations over the past decade with Peabody Winner Dave Cassidy and two-time Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple, beginning with the NAACP Image Award-nominated Dap-Kings docu-musical Miss Sharon Jones! Next came a Discovery Channel anthology film about climate change’s effects on water in the West, Killing the Colorado; an Emmy-nominated Netflix Original about the relationship between Johnny Cash and President Nixon, Tricky Dick & the Man in Black, and the poignant true-crime / self-help mashup for Investigation Discovery, A Murder in Mansfield. Their most recent release was 2020’s acclaimed look into a U.S. special ops hostage rescue mission gone wrong, Desert One, featuring an original interview with President Jimmy Carter and released theatrically. Barbara, Dave and Ray are currently completing a project that has captured the racially charged Trump years from the vantage of Black and Latino American civil rights leaders. Ray gained a fervent following around his work over two decades with journalists Danny Schecter, Rory O’Connor and John Duffy into the dark side of the “war on terror” and the cost to Americans, “outing” an alleged serial human rights abuser along the way and culminating in the 2018 book The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark from Skyhorse Publishing. Ray has written for Salon, Truthdig, Truthout and Fortune and contributed to investigations by The Daily Beast, Gawker, The Intercept and Newsweek. He is a proud member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, fighting for equality, ethics and standards in our profession.