Chad Ervin

Biography

Chad is a documentary film producer & director raised in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of Southern Appalachia. He co-owns Well Told Films in Vermont and works on film & media projects for clients both locally and nationwide. Chad is the director of the award winning Vermont-based documentaries “Gone Guys” and “Connected: Vermont’s Grassroots Effort for Rural Broadband” and has worked in a variety of roles on around thirty-five national documentaries, including films for PBS’s Frontline and American Experience. As a lead film editor his films premiered at South by Southwest (Join or Die) and the Toronto International Film Festival (Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart) and won Emmy, Peabody, Polk, and DuPont Columbia awards. “Coal’s Deadly Dust,” (co-producer / editor), was nominated for Emmy and Peabody Awards and was featured as a question on “Jeopardy!” His storytelling strives to explore complicated issues with compassion for the human impact behind the statistics.