POST SUPERVISOR & FINISHING EDITOR
Trailer for the latest episode of Under Her Skin, featuring the life and works of Southern photographer Jane Rule Burdine.
Directed by Kelsey and Remy Bennett. Tribeca Film Festival, Marfa Film Festival, Telluride’s Original Thinkers Festival, 2018.
POST SUPERVISOR & FINISHING EDITOR
Under Her Skin: Tafv Sampson is a filmic scrapbook illustrating the artistic journey of Tafv Sampson and her mother, Nancy Rommelmann. Sampson’s work captures the in-between spaces of the American landscape, from motel rooms to lost highways transforming the mundane to the exquisite. Directed by The Bennett Sisters.
Published on i-D, 2017.
PRODUCER / EDITOR / CINEMATOGRAPHER
Mannaggia is a new comedy series that follows the daily lives of a bodacious woman, her good-natured man, and the colorful monster she brings home from the woods.
Written and directed by Anna Galtarossa.
POST COORDINATOR / ASSISTANT EDITOR
Working Women: The Marionette Puppeteer profiles Amber Williams, a marionette puppeteer from Bushwick, Brooklyn. First of her kind, Williams followed her dreams to Puppetworks puppet theatre in Park Slope. Directed by Rebecca Hovel & Rosalina Merrihue.
POST COORDINATOR & ASSISTANT EDITOR
A short documentary film following a few of the many female water protectors and leaders of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in 2016. Directed by Amber Fares, Julie Bridgham and Muriel Soenens.
POST SUPERVISOR & ASSISTANT EDITOR
The World Health Organization estimates that 3 million children are at risk for female genital mutilation evert year—and there are 200 million survivors living with trauma and pain. Meet the Maasai Sisters, a collective in Kajiado, Kenya that rescues girls from female genital mutilation and works to raise a new generation of leaders to end the practice—by any means necessary. Directed by Samantha André & Muriel Soenens.
Donate via maasaisisters.com
POST SUPERVISOR & FINISHING EDITOR
Under Her Skin: Parker Day profiles Los Angeles based photographer Parker Day, who creates vivid, fictional character portraits that explore the invention of identity. Directed by The Bennett Sisters.
EDITOR
Rev. Katrina D. Foster is the unconventional Pastor self-described as a “redneck lesbian”. Working in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, her specialty involves fixing-up ailing churches.
ASSISTANT EDITOR
When the winter ice begins to thaw along the coast of Maine, millions of baby freshwater eels called “elvers” start their migration from the ocean into rivers and streams. For decades, a sleepy fishery for elvers sustained folks looking for extra cash at the end of winter. But in 2012 everything changed. Worldwide populations of freshwater eel species were in rapid decline despite global demand for eel as an ingredient in Asian cuisine. The price for elvers skyrocketed to more than $2000 per pound. Camaraderie along the shores turned to competition as fishermen both licensed and illegal fought to fill their buckets with as many pounds of elvers as they could. A lucrative blackmarket ensued. ELVERS is the story of what happened when this small-town Maine fishery exploded into a gold rush. Directed by Rachael Morrison.
Official Selection of the Camden International Film Festival 2019 and premiered on The Atlantic in 2020.
EDITOR
Wesley Allsbrook, art director and first-time screenwriter of Sundance Film Festival VR hit Dear Angelica on what drives her to create virtual worlds. Directed by Mae Ryan & Maya Tanaka.
POST SUPERVISOR & FINISHING EDITOR
Episode 04 Hein Koh explores the fantastical world of sculptural artist Hein Koh. In the film, Koh’s sculptures come to life as she muses about the relationship between motherhood and creation. Directors: Kelsey & Rémy Bennett.
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Under Her Skin: Linda Friedman Schmidt gives us a glimpse into the life of artist Linda Friedman Schmidt. Donning her signature look of bright blue eyeliner, Schmidt tells of the trauma she endured having been raised by parents who survived The Holocaust. Using discarded clothing as a vehicle to address the theme of intergenerational trauma, she creates striking portraits by weaving shredded fabric into colorful tapestries ripe with emotion. Directed by The Bennett Sisters.
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Three courts already separately decided that Trump broke the law in the way he tried to end DACA and blocked him from terminating the program. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in. They’ll either uphold the lower court decisions or give him the green light to cut the program and add DACA recipients to the list of people he’s already targeting. Learn more at https://homeishere.us
ASSISTANT EDITOR
The search for affordable housing and pressures created by gentrification lead to a unique predicament for a young artist, in this sharp satirical comedy by Amina Sutton and Maya Tanaka.
Toronto International Film Festival, The Holly Shorts Film Festival, Urbanworld Film Festival, TIDE Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival.
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Search To Survive is the story of Tiffany Carr, a young woman from South West Georgia on a journey of self-discovery with her biological and adopted mothers, that explores how the act of sharing a personal story can be a form of activism. As a mentor to young black women in the rural South under a human rights initiative, Tiffany’s community engagement is defined by encouraging those around her to “come to pride” in their own histories, aiming to transform stigma to grace and shame to honor. By confronting and sharing the truths of her complex and at times painful past, Tiffany is cultivating a platform from which to transform collective struggle into collective empowerment.
Directed & Produced by Kelsey Bennett, Rémy Bennett for Tribeca Studios x 23andMe. Cinematography by Alexa Mignon.
EDITOR
Elsewhere (Official Video) for Lotushalves. Song produced by Lotushalves & Jaren Smith.
Directed by Maya Tanaka. New Orleans Film Festival, 2020.
EDITOR
Music video for Last Date a song by the band WALL for Wharf Cat Records. Directed by Karen Cinorre.
Premiered on Consequences of Sound and appeared in New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix.
