Jeff Plunkett
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Co-founder of Muck Media, an LA-based production company. Showrunner on Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller. EP of Science Fair the Series, Menudo: Forever Young, and Mucho Mucho Amor. Previously, Jeff campaign-hopped as a producer/director for Showtime's The Circus, directed The Opposition for ESPN about the collision of soccer and politics in Pinochet's Chile, and co-directed Borderland for Al Jazeera. For previous films, he embedded with the English Defense League to explore Europe's growing Islamophobia, posed as a soccer agent to investigate the trafficking of young African players, and was thrown out of a tobacco industry conference in Jakarta while documenting Big Tobacco's push into the developing world. Proud Berkeley j-school grad. Former captain of the Princeton soccer team.