P.J. Palmer is an award-winning filmmaker and alumnus of the Edinburgh Film Festival Director’s Lab and the National Steinbeck Center Artist-in-Residency.
He served as series producer for the critically acclaimed drama Anyone But Me, now streaming on Prime, and wrote the award-winning historical drama pilot On Cannery Row. His documentary work includes filming on the front lines of Hurricane Katrina with the American Red Cross across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, as well as directing a documentary retracing the journey of unhoused and migrant families from The Grapes of Wrath.
His commercial and branded work spans clients such as Delta Airlines, the CDC, Adidas, HP, and Chase.
P.J. wrote and directed the Oscar-qualified live-action short North Star, starring Colman Domingo and Kevin Bacon. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York City and is always developing new stories rooted in emotional truth and moral complexity.