Nancy Abraham

Nancy Abraham is Senior Vice President of Documentary Programming for Home Box Office. She is responsible for the development and production of HBO Documentary Films that have garnered numerous awards over the years including Primetime Emmy Awards, News and Documentary Emmy Awards, George Foster Peabody Awards, Alfred I. DuPont Awards and Academy Awards. Prior to joining HBO’s documentary division in 1995, Abraham was Director of Film Acquisition for HBO, acquiring feature films and other programs for HBO’s international channels, and she spent three years in Budapest as Director of Programming for HBO Hungary. Prior to that, Abraham worked at Bravo Cable Network in both acquisition and production capacities. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Vassar College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and attended Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Abraham has served as a moderator and participant on numerous industry panels at events including the Sundance Film Festival, the International Emmys, the Real Screen Summit, AFI/Silverdocs, IFP Independent Film Week, the Full Frame Documentary Festival and others in the U.S. and abroad. She has also served as a Forum delegate at the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), at the Hot Docs Producers Forum in Toronto and at BritDoc. She has served as a member of the Non-Fiction Peer Group Executive Committee of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, on the selection committee for the duPont Awards, and on the IFP’s Gotham Awards Committee. She has been a juror for the News and Documentary Emmys, the Hampton’s International Film Festival, the Woodstock International Film Festival and MountainFilm Teluride. Abraham is a board member of SPW-USA, a youth-led international development organization, and was a founding board member of Doc Fest, a documentary film festival in New York City. She is a member of New York Women in Film & Television, NATAS, ATAS, and was featured in The Hollywood Reporter’s “35 Under 35 to Watch” article in 1998. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and two children.