Chase Whiteside

Chase Whiteside is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and designer. He co-founded the political web series New Left Media and co-directed the documentary short Lifelike. More recently, he worked with actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt on a short about gun trafficking between the US and Mexico, and singer Alicia Keys on her campaign for criminal justice reform. His short profile of Ricardo Aca, an undocumented immigrant working in a Trump hotel, received widespread media coverage during the 2016 elections, including comment from Trump himself. With co-director Erick Stoll, he is currently in post-production on his first feature-length documentary, América, filmed in southwest Mexico.