Anthony Lappé is a New York-based investigative storyteller who specializes in premium global documentary programming. He is most drawn to stories that reveal secrets about how the world really works. 

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He's best known for the multiple-award winning series BLACK MARKET WITH MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS ("Gripping" – Boston Globe), the breakout limited series, AMERICA'S WAR ON DRUGS ("A genuine milestone" - Rolling Stone), and the groundbreaking UFO investigation, UNIDENTIFIED. His latest series, CONSPIRACIES & COVERUPS, premiered this Spring on Discovery and HBO Max. 

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Lappé has worked in all phases of documentary film, television and podcast production from the initial spark of an idea to final delivery, managing shoe-string to multi-million dollar budgets. He has extensive experience working domestically and overseas as a director, as well as directing dramatic recreations, motion graphics, visual effects and show packaging.

 

He began his career as a freelance feature writer for The New York Times, New York, Paper, The Fader, South China Morning Post, ESPN: The Magazine, Vice, Black Book, Rolling Stone Mexico, among many others. He reported from the backstreets of Havana, the contested hills of the West Bank, the slums of San Salvador and the top of a 200 ft. redwood tree, which is still the scariest thing he's ever done. His big break in television came when MTV News and Specials optioned a New York Times feature article he wrote about computer hackers. The network hired him to produce his first documentary. 

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In 2003, he traveled with his friend Stephen Marshall to Iraq, where they shot GNN's award-winning war documentary, BATTLEGROUND ("Historically essential viewing" – Chicago Tribune).  The film won several awards and was sold to Showtime. ​

 

As a commentator, he's been invited to opine on media outlets around the world, including Sky News, Huffington Post Live, CBC, WNYC, NPR, BBC Radio, Channel 4 News, Radio France, Fox Business Network and Radio Havana. He has also lectured at over twenty universities, institutions and conferences on the state and future of the media. 

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At RadicalMedia, he was a creative consultant, director, producer and writer on numerous high profile projects from 2010-2014. Clients included: J.Crew, Apple, VEVO, and Jay Z and Ron Howard’s documentary MADE IN AMERICA. He wrote Robert Redford’s critically acclaimed 3D documentary, CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE: THE SALK INSTITUTE.

 

Lappé has authored or contributed to several books. His Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel SHOOTING WAR was serialized in New York Magazine and was called "the Apocalypse Now of the War on Terror" by Forbes, "scary smart" by Rolling Stone and "wicked satire" by the Financial Times. 

 

Lappé also co-directed the short film, LEBANON WINS THE WORLD CUP, which won best doc short at the 2015 Warsaw International Film Festival and the Santa Barbara Film Festival.​

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Lappé is a graduate of NYU and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He also studied at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. But his real education has been in traveling the world and telling stories.

 

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