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Marilyn Ness

ProductionBrooklyn, New York, U.S.
About

Marilyn Ness is a two-time Emmy, Peabody, and DuPont Award-winning filmmaker, working as a producer and a director. Her most recent film, Cameraperson (dir. Kirsten Johnson) premiered at Sundance 2016, was released by the Criterion Collection, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Awards. Marilyn produced Trapped (dir. Dawn Porter) which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, received the Jury Prize for Social Impact Filmmaking and screened nationally on PBS. She also produced Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman's feature documentary E-TEAM, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2014 and was bought by Netflix Original, as well as Johanna Hamilton's feature documentary 1971 which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on Independent Lens in 2015. She directed the documentary feature film Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale that broadcast nationally on PBS in 2…

Filmography
The Endless Frontier
The Endless Frontier2026 · Director
Holding Liat
Holding Liat2025 · Consulting Producer
The Body Politic
The Body Politic2024 · Executive Producer
The Easy Kind
The Easy Kind2024 · Executive Producer
Camp Courage
Camp Courage2023 · Producer
Becoming
Becoming2020 · Producer
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Dick Johnson Is Dead2020 · Producer
Charm City
Charm City2018 · Director, Producer
Cameraperson
Cameraperson2016 · Producer
Trapped
Trapped2016 · Producer
The Above
The Above2015 · Producer
1971
19712014 · Producer
E-Team
E-Team2014 · Producer
The Honor Code2012 · Producer
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale2010 · Director, Writer, Producer
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Meltdown at Three Mile Island1999 · Associate Producer
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