Rebecca Cammisa

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Rebecca Cammisa (born July 9, 1966 in New York ) is an American film director , camerawoman and producer who specializes in documentaries .

Life

Before Rebecca Cammisa began her film career, she worked as a photographer for twelve years .

Her first film contribution was the documentary Sister Helen , which began in 1998 and premiered in 2002 , in which she acted as camerawoman, co-director and co-producer. The film follows the work of Sister Helen who cares for drug addicts and alcoholics at the John Thomas Travis Center for 18 months after she lost her husband and both children. Helen herself suffered from alcohol addiction and her husband died from it. One of her sons was stabbed to death and the other died of a heroin overdose . The film has won several awards.

She then produced the short film Sunset Tuxedo , which she directed as well as the television contribution Film School , shot in the same year (2004) , in which she again acted behind the camera.

In 2007 she was back behind the camera for the television documentary Act of Honor . The focus of the film is a Mexican - American family whose son Rafael Peralta was killed in action in the Iraqi city ​​of Fallujah . To save his comrade's life, he had thrown himself at a hand grenade that tore him apart.

Most recently she produced the documentaries Which Way Home (2009) and God Is the Bigger Elvis (2012), which she also directed and was behind the camera.

Which Way Home reports on the arduous journey of children from Central America trying to enter the United States via Mexico. The film had a production time of six years and received numerous awards. Cammisa received a 2010 nomination for the Best Documentary Film category.

God Is the Bigger Elvis is a short documentary film dedicated to the life story of Dolores Hart . She was once a celebrated film actress, and among other things shot twice for Elvis Presley before deciding to become a nun . On January 24, 2011, the documentary was nominated for an Oscar 2012 in the category Best Documentary Short Film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rebecca Cammisa at movies.yahoo.com
  2. ↑ Entry Cammisas at the Festival Cinema africano .
  3. ↑ Biographical data on Rebecca Cammisa ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed January 19, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lightstalkers.org
  4. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Rebecca Cammisa. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 12, 2016 .
  5. ↑ The Harrowing Journey North with Rebecca Cammisa's Which Way Home (English; article from August 24, 2009)
  6. ↑ New York Times: Not Child's Play: Closely Watched Train Hoppers (August 23, 2009 article)
  7. ↑ Hollywood News: Oscars: Artist, Descendants In - Snubs: Clint, Leo, Tintin, Albert Brooks (English; article from January 24, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Cammisa, Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, camerawoman and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH new York