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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Homepage: https://www.marilynness.com/

Movie Involvements: 18

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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 2011.

Most Famous Work

Becoming
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7

Becoming

(2020) Producer
Dick Johnson Is Dead
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7

Dick Johnson Is Dead

(2020) Producer
Cameraperson
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7

Cameraperson

(2016) Producer
Camp Courage
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7

Camp Courage

(2023) Producer
E-Team
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6

E-Team

(2014) Producer
1971
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7

1971

(2014) Producer
Trapped
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7

Trapped

(2016) Producer
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
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5

Meltdown at Three Mile Island

(1999) Associate Producer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2014 Citizens' Commission
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2018 Director
2010 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2010 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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