Rebecca Cammisa is a two-time Oscar-nominated and Emmy award-winning filmmaker with a remarkable career spanning multiple feature documentary films and prestigious awards.
Her first feature documentary film, "Sister Helen", aired on HBO and won the 2002 Sundance Film Festival's Documentary Directing Award, earning Rebecca 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 went on to found Documentress Films and teamed up with Mr. Mudd Productions to direct and produce the 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary "Which Way Home", for which she received a Fulbright Fellowship for Filmmaking. The film received four Emmy nominations and won a News & Documentary EMMY Award for Outstanding Informational Programming and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards Grand Prize.
Her 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 working on her next film, "Atomic Homefront", which received a 2016 MacArthur Foundation Film Grant. The film 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.
In addition, 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.
