Wyatt Rockefeller

Wyatt Rockefeller is a writer and director; his debut feature film, “Settlers,” was released internationally in the summer of 2021.

After studying history at Princeton University, he served President Obama on his first presidential campaign and within his administration at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Afterward, while working for an energy distribution startup in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, he saw firsthand the capacity of movies to cross borders and decided to formally study film. He went on to earn a dual MBA-MFA in film at New York University’s Stern School of Business and Tisch School of the Arts. During this time, he was also a grant recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.