Marilyn Ness

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Gender

Female

Birthday

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Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Marilyn Ness

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...

Acting

2014

1971

as Citizens' Commission

Production

2014

E-Team

as Producer

2014

1971

as Producer

2023

Camp Courage

as Producer

2016

Cameraperson

as Producer

1999

Meltdown at Three Mile Island

as Associate Producer

2012

The Honor Code

as Producer

2015

The Above

as Producer

2018

Charm City

as Director

2018

Charm City

as Producer

2016

Trapped

as Producer

2024

The Easy Kind

as Executive Producer

2020

2020

Becoming

as Producer

2025

Holding Liat

as Consulting Producer

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