Biography

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. "Sister Helen" also received an Emmy award nomination for Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming and an Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Film Award nomination from the Directors Guild of America.

Rebecca founded Documentress Films, teamed up with Mr. Mudd Productions, and directed and produced the 2010 Oscar®-nominated documentary, "Which Way Home" for which she also received a Fulbright Fellowship for Filmmaking.

"Which Way Home" was nominated for a 2010 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary and received four Emmy nominations. "Which Way Home" went on to win a News & Documentary EMMY Award for Outstanding Informational Programming and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards Grand Prize.

Rebecca's next film, "God is the Bigger Elvis" received a 2012 Oscar® nomination for Best Documentary Short Subject, a 2013 Emmy award nomination for Outstanding Arts & Cultural Programming, and a 2012 IDA Documentary Award nomination in the Short Film category.

Rebecca was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Filmmaking and began her next film, "Atomic Homefront" which received a 2016 MacArthur Foundation Film Grant. "Atomic Homefront" premiered on HBO and won the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Domestic Television and the 2019 Impact Docs Award for Best Documentary Film.

Recently, Rebecca shared in executive producing Richard Ladkani's "Sea of Shadows," a feature documentary that won the 2019 Sundance Film Festival's World Documentary Audience Award and premiered on the National Geographic Channel.
- IMDb mini biography by: Documentress Films