COMPLETE FILMOGRAPHY + WORK EXPERIENCE
THE BEHOLDER OF THE EYE, Director/Producer, Transmedia work, 2019
AWARDS: Best Documentary, Vera Cruz Film Festival, MX 2020
SCREENINGS: DocFeed, DeadCenter, MicGenero, Saga Adelaide, Porto Femme'20
ROOM TONE, Director/Editor, Immersive Video-Art Installation, 2017
Appleton Square, Lisbon, 2017
NOBODY'S WATCHING, Editor, Narrative Feature film, 2017
Dir. Julia Solomonoff
AWARDS: Best Editing, Critic's Choice and Best Actor at Ceará Film Festival, 2017 Best Actor, Tribeca Film Festival 2017
World Premiére in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival
PEARS, Writer/Director/Producer, Narrative Short film
AWARDS: Mexico International Film Festival, and FRAPA, Porto Alegre Brasil 2015
CASA GRANDE, Writer/Editor, Narrative Feature film
Dir.Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa
World Premiére in competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2014
Sundance Screenwriting and Directing Labs Participant, 2008
NHK/Sundance Award Finalist, 2009, FSA Production Grant Winner 2011
Migdal/Gamarosa Filmes, 2014
AWARDS: Paulínia Film Festival: Best Screenplay, Jury Prize, Best Supporting Actor and Actress
Toulouse: French Critic's , Fipresci and Public Prizes
CPH: PIX: Jury Mention
MANIFACTOTUM, Director, Short experimental film, In Progress
Brooklyn Arts Council Grant ‘2012
THE NARRATIVE OF INADEQUACY, Director/Artist, Video art installation, 2012
The Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013
Bop Decamaron, Palazzo Pretorio, Firenze, Italy, July 2013
MOLT! Speculative Identities, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, July 2013
Espacio Oculto de Arte, Madrid, Spain, September 2013
Halka Center for the Arts, November 2013
Appleton Square, September 2017
Princeton Comparative Literature Conference" The Secret Life of Crowds", April 2018
SMALL OUTDOORS, Editor, Short fiction film by Frank Hall Green,
Greenmachine, New York, 2011
Winner of best dramatic editing at Amsterdam Film Festival
LAURA, Editor/Writer/Producer, Feature Documentary 2011, Dir.Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa
Gamarosa/Vermelho Filmes, Brazil/New York
Acquired by HBO for broadcast in 2014 and FilmBuff for online distribution.
Best Documentary-Hamptons Film Festival, 2011, HotDocs, BIg Sky, London Documentary,
Taiwan and Vision du Réel, Bafici and Edocs.
DOC-TV Latin America Award, Cinereach Grant Recipient and IFP Market Participant.
LAND OF OPPORTUNITY, Editor, Feature Documentary, 2010
Dir.Luisa Dantas, Arte/ZDF, Jolu Productions, Chicken and Egg,
New York/New Orleans
GUARDADORES DA ARTE, Director/Producer/Editor of documentary short, 2009
Petrobras Grant Recipient, Tritono Productions, Brazil
THE NOVEL OF A GENERATION, Editor, feature film, Dir. David França Mendes , 2007
Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Paris Brazilian Film Festival among others.
Mixer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
HAPPINESS, INC., Director/Producer/Editor of commissioned documentary feature-2005
RAI2 Italian Television, New York
EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD, Editor/Writer of Feature Documentary, 2004
Dir: Simone Duarte, PBS’ Independent Lens, Fall ‘05
Tribeca, Miami, São Paulo film festivals among others.
Broadcast France3,
Duarte Productions, New York
FILMMAKER’S MASTERCLASS WITH MILOS FORMAN, Editor of Pilot:- 2003
Dir. Maureen Ryan/Ben Odell, Hands on Productions, New York
DARIA, Editor of TV Series 199-2001 including two feature length TV films
MTV Networks, New York
LOVE’S LEADING LADIES: COCO CHANEL, Editor on the TV documentary, BBC Int’l - 1997
Kralyevicth Productions Inc , New York
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY, CT
Professor, Narrative Film Editing
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York
Teaching Assistant to:
• Richard Peña, Latin American Cinema- Spring ’03,
• Jameel Khaja, Film Theory, Fall ’04,
• Patricia Romeo, Women and Film, Spring 05
Department Research Assistant, Digital Media Center- 8/02-5/03
Production Coordinator, Liaison to Producing Faculty- 8/02-5/03
EDUCATION
BA, Film, Bard College 1996,
MFA, Film, Columbia University, 2006
PhD, Cultural Analysis/Film Theory, started Sept'20, University of Amsterdam, ASCA
HONORS
UN Institute for International Education Scholar, 1994
National Film Board of Canada Incentive to Young Filmmakers Grant, 1995
Columbia University Merit Award 2002 and 2003
Sloan Foundation Award for Screenwriters, 2003
Berlinale Talent Campus Participant, 2005
Sundance Institute Writer’s Lab Participant, 2008
NHK/Sundance finalist, 2009
DOCT-TV Latin America Award Winner, 2009
Yaddo Resident, Spring 2010
Halka Center for the Arts, Istambul, November 2013
Inspiration Forum, Jihlava Hilm Festival, Czech Republic, October 2013
European Artists TV, Olofström, Sweden, Spring 2014
Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Summer'18
AWARDS: Best Documentary, Vera Cruz Film Festival, MX 2020
SCREENINGS: DocFeed, DeadCenter, MicGenero, Saga Adelaide, Porto Femme'20
ROOM TONE, Director/Editor, Immersive Video-Art Installation, 2017
Appleton Square, Lisbon, 2017
NOBODY'S WATCHING, Editor, Narrative Feature film, 2017
Dir. Julia Solomonoff
AWARDS: Best Editing, Critic's Choice and Best Actor at Ceará Film Festival, 2017 Best Actor, Tribeca Film Festival 2017
World Premiére in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival
PEARS, Writer/Director/Producer, Narrative Short film
AWARDS: Mexico International Film Festival, and FRAPA, Porto Alegre Brasil 2015
CASA GRANDE, Writer/Editor, Narrative Feature film
Dir.Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa
World Premiére in competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2014
Sundance Screenwriting and Directing Labs Participant, 2008
NHK/Sundance Award Finalist, 2009, FSA Production Grant Winner 2011
Migdal/Gamarosa Filmes, 2014
AWARDS: Paulínia Film Festival: Best Screenplay, Jury Prize, Best Supporting Actor and Actress
Toulouse: French Critic's , Fipresci and Public Prizes
CPH: PIX: Jury Mention
MANIFACTOTUM, Director, Short experimental film, In Progress
Brooklyn Arts Council Grant ‘2012
THE NARRATIVE OF INADEQUACY, Director/Artist, Video art installation, 2012
The Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013
Bop Decamaron, Palazzo Pretorio, Firenze, Italy, July 2013
MOLT! Speculative Identities, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, July 2013
Espacio Oculto de Arte, Madrid, Spain, September 2013
Halka Center for the Arts, November 2013
Appleton Square, September 2017
Princeton Comparative Literature Conference" The Secret Life of Crowds", April 2018
SMALL OUTDOORS, Editor, Short fiction film by Frank Hall Green,
Greenmachine, New York, 2011
Winner of best dramatic editing at Amsterdam Film Festival
LAURA, Editor/Writer/Producer, Feature Documentary 2011, Dir.Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa
Gamarosa/Vermelho Filmes, Brazil/New York
Acquired by HBO for broadcast in 2014 and FilmBuff for online distribution.
Best Documentary-Hamptons Film Festival, 2011, HotDocs, BIg Sky, London Documentary,
Taiwan and Vision du Réel, Bafici and Edocs.
DOC-TV Latin America Award, Cinereach Grant Recipient and IFP Market Participant.
LAND OF OPPORTUNITY, Editor, Feature Documentary, 2010
Dir.Luisa Dantas, Arte/ZDF, Jolu Productions, Chicken and Egg,
New York/New Orleans
GUARDADORES DA ARTE, Director/Producer/Editor of documentary short, 2009
Petrobras Grant Recipient, Tritono Productions, Brazil
THE NOVEL OF A GENERATION, Editor, feature film, Dir. David França Mendes , 2007
Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Paris Brazilian Film Festival among others.
Mixer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
HAPPINESS, INC., Director/Producer/Editor of commissioned documentary feature-2005
RAI2 Italian Television, New York
EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD, Editor/Writer of Feature Documentary, 2004
Dir: Simone Duarte, PBS’ Independent Lens, Fall ‘05
Tribeca, Miami, São Paulo film festivals among others.
Broadcast France3,
Duarte Productions, New York
FILMMAKER’S MASTERCLASS WITH MILOS FORMAN, Editor of Pilot:- 2003
Dir. Maureen Ryan/Ben Odell, Hands on Productions, New York
DARIA, Editor of TV Series 199-2001 including two feature length TV films
MTV Networks, New York
LOVE’S LEADING LADIES: COCO CHANEL, Editor on the TV documentary, BBC Int’l - 1997
Kralyevicth Productions Inc , New York
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY, CT
Professor, Narrative Film Editing
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York
Teaching Assistant to:
• Richard Peña, Latin American Cinema- Spring ’03,
• Jameel Khaja, Film Theory, Fall ’04,
• Patricia Romeo, Women and Film, Spring 05
Department Research Assistant, Digital Media Center- 8/02-5/03
Production Coordinator, Liaison to Producing Faculty- 8/02-5/03
EDUCATION
BA, Film, Bard College 1996,
MFA, Film, Columbia University, 2006
PhD, Cultural Analysis/Film Theory, started Sept'20, University of Amsterdam, ASCA
HONORS
UN Institute for International Education Scholar, 1994
National Film Board of Canada Incentive to Young Filmmakers Grant, 1995
Columbia University Merit Award 2002 and 2003
Sloan Foundation Award for Screenwriters, 2003
Berlinale Talent Campus Participant, 2005
Sundance Institute Writer’s Lab Participant, 2008
NHK/Sundance finalist, 2009
DOCT-TV Latin America Award Winner, 2009
Yaddo Resident, Spring 2010
Halka Center for the Arts, Istambul, November 2013
Inspiration Forum, Jihlava Hilm Festival, Czech Republic, October 2013
European Artists TV, Olofström, Sweden, Spring 2014
Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Summer'18