John Hoffman (TheAntidote)

Director John Hoffman

John Hoffman is a six-time Emmy award-winning filmmaker, whose most recent films include the National Geographic portrait, FAUCI, which premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and THE ANTIDOTE which was theatrically released in 2020 before moving to Amazon Prime. Some of his other films include, RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2017, and OUT OF MANY, ONE which premiered at the New York Film Festival, followed by Netflix in 2018.  Much of John’s work as a filmmaker has focused on the key health issues of our time, including THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION (HBO), ADDICTION (HBO), THE ALZHEIMER’S PROJECT (HBO), and FIRST IN HUMAN (Discovery) – a 6-hour series set in the world’s largest research hospital, the NIH’s Building 10.  In addition to making films, John has also been a network executive. He was the Executive Vice President of Documentaries & Specials for Discovery from 2015 to 2018, after nearly two decades as Vice President of Documentary Programming at HBO.