Chad Ervin

Chad is a documentary film producer & director raised in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of Southern Appalachia. He co-owns Well Told Films in Vermont and works on film & media projects for clients both locally and nationwide. Chad is the director of the award winning Vermont-based documentaries “Gone Guys” and “Connected: Vermont’s Grassroots Effort for Rural Broadband” and has worked in a variety of roles on around thirty-five national documentaries, including films for PBS’s Frontline and American Experience. As a lead film editor his films premiered at South by Southwest (Join or Die) and the Toronto International Film Festival (Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart) and won Emmy, Peabody, Polk, and DuPont Columbia awards. “Coal’s Deadly Dust,” (co-producer / editor), was nominated for Emmy and Peabody Awards and was featured as a question on “Jeopardy!” His storytelling strives to explore complicated issues with compassion for the human impact behind the statistics.

What are Chad Ervin's films like?

Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Self.

Themes

share of theme weight

Society

38%

Self

33%

Morality

8%

Ideas

8%

Bonds

5%

Power

4%

Survival

4%

Community3 Purpose2

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Hopeful

3

Warm

3

Joyful

2

Tense

2

Contemplative

2

Other

1

How their films linger

Hopeful4 Feel-good2

How their films end

Bittersweet2
Ambiguous2
Cyclical1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Chad Ervin's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

HISTORY Vault1 title, show their title on HISTORY Vault
PBS Documentaries1 title, show their title on PBS Documentaries

Subscription and free streaming for Chad Ervin's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

16 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page.

Join or Die (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Editor
Police on Trial (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Editor
The Street Project(2022)
Editor · Writer
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
The Sanctity of Space(2021)
Editor · Producer · Writer
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed(2022)
Show Editor
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all shows
American Oz (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Editor
Tutwiler (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Editor
Coal's Deadly Dust (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Co-Producer
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Editor
Blackout (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Editor
Klansville U.S.A. (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Editor
Dollars and Dentists (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Editor
Extreme Houseboats(2012)
Show Editor
Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Cats 101(2008)
Show Editor
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows
Connected: Vermont's Grassroots Effort for Rural Broadband (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Director
Gone Guys (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Director