Biography

Dara is a chronic insomniac though she was told that writing that validates bad behavior. So instead, she'll state that she's a chronic storyteller, who holds her MFA in film from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, and who is most happy when bringing a story to life in either narrative or documentary form.

Collectively, her films have screened all over the world, from Cannes to the Tribeca Film Festival to SXSW, Abu Dhabi International Film Festival, to ShortShorts Asia in Tokyo and the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival in France. Dara has been the recipient of many grants including the Alfred P. Sloan Production grant, the FAP grant from the National Film Board of Canada, the Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Award, and the documentary grant from the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts, and Sciences.

When she is not based in NY, Dara can be found in Montreal or Toronto, the two other cities she calls home. In her alternate avatar life, she's an amateur sommelier living in the country with her ten rescued dogs. Or a criminal lawyer. She's still deciding.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dara Bratt