WE PRODUCE STORIES THAT CONNECT AND INSPIRE.
Array Films, founded by Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalists and filmmakers, Rich Brooks and Heather O'Neill, produces documentaries and long-form stories for CNN, CBS, BBC, ABC, and Discovery Channel. Our most recent feature documentary, No Ordinary Life, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on CNN in 2022.
We believe in the power of storytelling to inspire and connect us to the world.
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Heather O’Neill
I love a good story. And any story about adventurous women is even better. Growing up, I imagined my young self exploring the Serengeti or flying high above the Amazon. I was gonna get out in the world and I did.
I am an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist, filmmaker and sustainable travel writer. No Ordinary Life, my directorial debut on a feature documentary film, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on CNN in 2022.
In 2021, I was a producer on the Paramount + docuseries, Wasteland. For the Discovery Channel, I traveled to Bikini Atoll to direct a shark conservation special with Philippe Cousteau Jr. and came back with all my fingers. I also produced the feature documentary Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi, which screened at the Hot Docs International Film Festival.
With CNN Presents, the award-winning documentary series, I directed and produced dozens of documentaries, with an early focus on climate change. For over a decade I spearheaded projects for CNN around the world, from melting glaciers in Greenland, to conflicts across the Middle East, to the danger journalists face covering the drug trade in Mexico.
I directed and produced CNN’s Planet in Peril series, where I traveled with Dr. Sanjay Gupta across Africa and China to investigate the impact of climate change. I also produced Christiane Amanpour's award-winning film, Generation Islam. I've earned more than a dozen journalism awards, including three Emmy Awards and multiple Peabody Awards.
Rich Brooks
As a child I was fascinated with my uncle's Kodak view camera and would practice taking pictures even when there was no film in the camera. Thats why I'm not in many family photos, because I was taking the pictures.
I am an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Director of Photography and journalist. My most recent feature documentary, No Ordinary Life, premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and aired on CNN in 2022.
As a Director of Photography, my clients include Discovery, CBS 60 Minutes, ABC World News Tonight, Paramount + and non-profits. In 2021, I was one of the principal photographers on the acclaimed Paramount + streaming series, Wasteland. For the Discovery Channel, I traveled to Bikini Atoll to film a shark conservation special with Philippe Cousteau Jr.
For more than 25 years, I captured the world’s stories through documentaries, features and news stories for CNN. I was a leading director of photography for CNN Presents, the award-winning documentary series, as well as CNN Heroes. My films include, God’s Warriors, Generation Islam and CNN’s In America documentary series.
I have earned more than a dozen major journalism awards, including multiple Emmy awards for my coverage of events in Somalia and Haiti. In addition, I've won two Edward R. Murrow awards for feature reporting. I also earned several Peabody Awards for God’s Warriors, the 2008 Presidential election, coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for God’s Warriors.
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