Joel Peissig

Joel Peissig is an American film director.

Joel Peissig
Occupation	Film director

Career

Peissig signed to Ridley Scott Associates production company in 2001^[1] and was reported to have signed with bicoastal Notorious Pictures in 2004.^[2] He was in the New Directors Showcase at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival of 2002.

He is known for his award-winning Resfest music video of Frou Frou's "Dumbing Down of Love" (2003),^[3] and for directing the video of Imogen Heap's Grammy-nominated single "Hide and Seek" in 2005.

Awards and recognition

In 2012, Peissig won a Silver Promax award directing the Showtimes hit series HomeLand launch campaign.^[4]

In 2021, while consulting with Searchlight Pictures, he won a Clio for his work on Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch.^[5]

In 2023, Peissig and Chené Lawson won a Webby for Best Scripted Podcast Series for All Things Undone.^[6] In 2024, Peissig was again awarded a Podcast Webby, this time an honoree award for "Best Documentary" for the first two episodes of How To Destroy Everything, which he produced, edited, sound designed and music supervised.^[7]