Netsanet Negussie

Netsanet is a documentary film & television producer with physical production experience in all aspects of production from ideation/development to postproduction and distribution. Her work is featured on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Disney , Max, PBS, ABC Network, and investigative publication Mother Jones.

Netsanet is the producer of POWER (Netflix Original, 2024) directed by Oscar-nominated Yance Ford, which had its premiere at the 40th Edition of Sundance Film Fest and will have its international premiere at CPH:DOX 2024.

Netsanet produced Homefront, an episode of Sesame Workshop’s NAACP Image and Imagen Award-nominated documentary series Through Our Eyes, that follows three children of veteran families as they cope with the emotional impact of having a wounded parent (2021, Max). Through Our Eyes: Homefront screened at Academy Awards®-Qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival and was a 2023 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Finalist. She also produced I Am Not Going to Change 400 Years in Four (2020, ITVS/Independent Lens) helmed by Emmy Award-winning directors Angela Tucker and Kristi Jacobson through Chicken & Egg Pictures Docs by the Dozen initiative. The short documentary takes a critical look into the role of reform-minded district attorney Satana Deberry and her efforts to curb gun violence in Durham, North Carolina. She associate produced NO ACCIDENT (HBO Original, 2023), which follows a group of attorneys and plaintiffs suing the organizers of the Unite the Right Rally 2017.

Netsanet worked in fundraising at the off-Broadway company New York Theatre Workshop. She also served as an AmeriCorps affordable housing community organizer in rural Minnesota, Iowa, and Washington, D.C. Netsanet also produced the 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Music Festival with late civil rights attorney Urvashi Vaid and Grammy-winning producer Dr. Amy Horowitz.

Netsanet earned her BS degree in Neuroscience with a minor in Philosophy from a small liberal arts school in Minnesota (magna cum laude). She earned her MA degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and was also a Fulbright Scholar in Germany where her research and reporting focused on the convoluted matrix of European Union immigration policy, policing and detention of migrants, mis- and disinformation, and the resurgence of extremism.

Netsanet is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM), the International Documentary Association (IDA), & the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA).