BIOGRAPHY
My professional experience spans cinematography, editing, directing, and producing. I worked as an editing assistant on the award-winning documentaries My Reincarnation and Regarding Susan Sontag, and went on to co-direct and produce The Village of Lovers, a feature documentary that streamed following a year-long festival run. My short film Home to Headwaters, currently in post-production, follows a woman on a 200-mile water walk in Northern California, exploring our relationship to water, place, and the living world.
In 2023, my feature documentary Intimate Revolutions was selected for the CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, within an international cohort of 10 female filmmakers in Europe, mentored by a high caliber of film professionals from across the world in a 9 month program. That same film was also selected for the CEDOC film market at the Krakow Film Festival in 2025 as well as the Cannes Film Festival Works in Progress Showcase in 2026.
I am currently in production on The Memory Keepers, a film about reclaiming silenced Jewish histories in Poland and exposing how the politics of memory shape the future when left unchallenged.
I learned analog photography as a young adult on my father’s Nikon SLR—the same camera he used to document my childhood.
His photographs were never posed; they captured small, ordinary moments—playing, laughing, resting—the textures of daily life.
Those images shaped my understanding of memory-making. They taught me that beauty lives in what is real and un-arranged, and that images which witness tenderness and honesty reveal deeper tones of truth.
MY STORY
I was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States as a child. I come from a lineage of political activists—people who organized, fought, or risked their lives to refuse participation in corrupt systems.
My great-grandfather refused to lead troops into battle in Siberia during World War I and was discharged from the national army. My great aunt and grandfather were part of the Resistance Army in the Warsaw Uprising. My father helped organize within Poland’s Solidarity movement to end communist rule. In my teens, you could find me with my family at war protests, marching in Washington against the Iraq War.
I grew up in an artistic, bilingual household—my mother a painter, my father a scientist and activist. Navigating languages and cultural nuance shaped my awareness of self and other.
I studied International Affairs and Fine Art at Skidmore College, bridging political awareness with creative expression. Later, I trained in group facilitation and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), expanding my understanding of human behavior, communication, and the transformative power of relationship—insights that continue to inform my approach to filmmaking and photography.
That’s my great aunt, who together with my Grandfather, were part of the resistance army in the Warsaw Uprising.
COLLABORATIONS
Creative collaborations include:
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Music Composer, Sound Engineer
Ariella Powers
Producer & Artist
Emmett Brennan
Cinematographer
APPROACH
My artistic practice is rooted in the belief that image-making can be an act of personal healing and cultural regeneration. Balancing between observation and participation. My approach to filmmaking and photography is a relational art form.
Influenced by my lineage of political activists and lived experience as a mother, artist, and community builder, my work seeks to reimagine narratives of the feminine, the body, and the Earth.
My creative process is grounded in rapport and ritual. I listen to dreams, I return to the analog, I listen for the stories that want to be told. Whether documenting ecological movements, intimate moments of human connection, or mythic re-imaginings of cultural memory, I aim to maintain a close, intuitive relationship with my participants.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Notable grants awarded, showcase appearances, and festival features include:
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The guiding values in my work are authenticity, relationship and the beauty-way.
It is equally important to me to create technically sound and stunning imagery that invites the viewer deeper into a story, while maintaining relational truths. I am guided by a trust that there is wisdom held by the quietest person in the room, that those whose perspectives and life-ways have been institutionally marginalized ought to be woven back into the fold, and that the natural world has much to teach us when we slow down and tune in.
VALUES
• authenticity •
• vulnerability •
• centering marginalized
voices & perspectives •
• beauty •
• relationship •