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Rebecca Cammisa (born 9 July 1966) is an American documentary filmmaker two-times Oscar nominated, Emmy award winner, and founder of Documentress Films. [1] Her first film Sister Helen (2002), aired on HBO, won the 2002 Sundance Film Festival’s Directing Award Documentary.
Rebecca Cammisa is a two-time Oscar®-nominated and Emmy award-winning filmmaker. Her first feature documentary film, "Sister Helen" aired on HBO, and won the 2002 Sundance Film Festival's Documentary Directing Award.
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Aug 23, 2009 · The documentarian discusses how 2005-2006 Fulbright to Mexico helped her in producing and directing the critically-acclaimed "Which Way Home" and how other filmmakers can benefit from the ...
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May 23, 2022 · Rebecca Cammisa is a two-time-Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award–winning filmmaker. Her first feature film, Sister Helen, won the 2002 Sundance Film Festival’s Documentary Directing Award. Cammisa won a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her next film, Atomic Homefront, which received a 2016 MacArthur Foundation Film Grant.
Aug 9, 2009 · After making her first feature documentary, Sister Helen, in 2002, Rebecca Cammisa's second film, Which Way Home, finally world-premiered in the Discovery section at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival this past May.
Rebecca Cammisa is an American documentary filmmaker two-times Oscar nominated, Emmy award winner, and founder of Documentress Films.
Celebrated documentary filmmaker Rebecca Cammisa came to prominence with her first film, Sister Helen (1998), which documented eighteen months in the life of this woman and her work at The John Thomas Travis Center, a halfway house for drug- and alcohol-addicted men.
