Curtis Whitear is a documentary filmmaker and editor from Utah, now based in New York City.

Most recently he was the editor and co-writer of Inheritance, a feature documentary which was shot over eleven years in rural Ohio dealing with addiction and generational poverty in America. The film has been covered in The New York Times, and premiered at Slamdance where it won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary. It is now showing at festivals around the world.

He is currently working on a feature documentary following the artist Dustin Yellin’s dream to repurpose a supertanker as the world’s largest sculpture.

Curtis is also the creator of Childhood Delusions Film Festival, a film festival for adults who made movies as children, which has been featured in The New Yorker.