Biography
Carl Deal is an American documentary filmmaker, director and producer. He directed and produced the Oscar-nominated Trouble the Water (2008) with Tia Lessin, which also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. He later directed and produced Citizen Koch (2013).
Deal has frequently collaborated with Michael Moore, serving as producer on Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018), Where to Invade Next (2015) and Michael Moore in TrumpLand (2016), and as co-producer on Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004). Earlier in his career he worked as a broadcast news producer and journalist, reporting from the United States, Latin America and Iraq. He is a graduate of Columbia University's journalism school.
With Lessin he directed Steal This Story, Please! (2025). Deal and Lessin live and work in Brooklyn, New York.
