Award-winning director and creative producer working between original and branded documentary. Driven by experimental storytelling and subversive acts of truth-telling, Cassandra made her directorial debut at Visions du Réel with TWO OVER YEARS and won the Jury Awards at SXSW and Cinequest 2019 as the director for SEND ME HOME– a short 360° documentary about one of the longest serving exonerees in U.S. history. The documentary has gone on to earn a Vimeo Staff Pick, be featured on The Atlantic and Al Jazeera and play at The New York Film Festival ‘57.

Creative producer accomplishments include PEDALING FOR PEACE, Best Documentary winner at the 2020 Brand Film Festival, PRIDE FOR EVERYONE, a Google VR/Doc campaign around LGBTQIA rights and 2017 Cannes Lion Bronze winner, and TORU a 2017 Sundance Film Festival Selection and short released by A24.

Cassandra is currently directing at CNN’s branded content studio and independently producing a feature-length documentary told from inside of a radical environmental movement.

select clients

Topic Studios, A24, CNN, Lexus, Coach, L'Oréal, Destination Canada, The Obama Foundation, Google.org, Humana, Nexans, Walker & Co, USAA, John Hancock, Made w/ Code, Bell Labs, Nokia, CDC

select awards + press

Cannes Lion Silver, SXSW Jury Award, The Atlantic Selects, Vimeo Staff Pick, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Cinequest Jury Award, Brand Film Awards Best Doc, DigiDay Brand Studio of the Year, AdWeek, Huffington Post, Vulture, Short of the Week, IndieWire, The A.V. Club

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