Person
Marilyn Ness
Production · Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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.
Known for
Cameraperson
Producer
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Producer
E-Team
Producer
Becoming
Producer
Holding Liat
Consulting Producer
The Easy Kind
Executive Producer
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Associate Producer
The Body Politic
Executive Producer
1971
Citizens' Commission
The Above
Producer
Filmography
- 2026The Endless FrontierDirector
- 2025Holding LiatConsulting Producer
- 2024The Body PoliticExecutive Producer
- 2024The Easy KindExecutive Producer
- 2023Camp CourageProducer
- 2020BecomingProducer
- 2020Dick Johnson Is DeadProducer
- 2018Charm CityDirector
- 2016CamerapersonProducer
- 2016TrappedProducer
- 2015The AboveProducer
- 20141971Citizens' Commission
- 2014E-TeamProducer
- 2012The Honor CodeProducer
- 2010Bad Blood: A Cautionary TaleDirector
- 1999Meltdown at Three Mile IslandAssociate Producer
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