Joe Sousa is an Emmy-nominated showrunner, producer, director, and writer. He’s credited on over 70 hours of broadcast TV and has produced on the ground in more than 20 countries across six continents, from Andean peaks to the Arabian Desert to the jungles of South India. He’s directed celebrities such as Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton, and Jeremy Irons. Sousa has deep experience creating premium unscripted content and smart, substantive documentary films. His work has appeared on History (A&E), Discovery, PBS, Smithsonian Network, Fox, Spike TV, Animal Planet and others. 
 
Joe recently helmed two seasons of the popular History series, The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters, as EP/Showrunner. The show made international headlines with the discovery of a fragment of the Challenger Space Shuttle that exploded in 1986 off the coast of Florida. Other notable recent work includes:​

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• The groundbreaking, Architects of Ancient Arabia, for Discovery International.

• The Hoffman Story, a behind-the-scenes mini-series tracing the rise and fall of gold miner and Discovery reality-TV star, Todd Hoffman.

• A 4-part PBS series, Native America, named by the Washington Post as one of the top ten shows to check out in Fall 2018.

• The intimate and critically acclaimed PBS mini-series, Coming Back with Wes Moore, which profiled U.S. combat veterans as they returned to civilian life. The series host, Wes Moore, is now the Governor of Maryland and rising political star.