Rebecca Cammisa

Rebecca Cammisa is an American documentary filmmaker, a two-time Oscar and Emmy award winner, and founder of Documentress Films.

Her first film "Sister Helen" was featured at over two dozen prestigious film festivals, and earned her the Documentary Directing Award at Sundance; the Gold Hugo Award for best documentary film at the Chicago International Film Festival; the Jury Prize for best documentary film at the Newport Film Festival; the Best Documentary Film Award at the Nashville Film Festival; the Freddie Award for outstanding performing by the International Health & Medical Media Awards; and a Grand Marnier Foundation film grant. In addition, in 2006 the Museum of Modern Art Film Library acquired Sister Helen for its permanent collection.

She teamed up with Mr.Mudd Productions to create "Which Way Home" which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and its European premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, both in 2009. The Traverse City Film Festival awarded Which Way Home its Special Jury Prize for Human Rights. When it aired in August of that year on HBO's Documentary Summer series, it reached over 3.5 million viewers. In 2010 Which Way Home won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming and received four nominations in the News & Documentary category.[1]

On January 24, 2012, she was nominated for an Academy Award for the film God Is the Bigger Elvis.[2]

Her 2017 Documentary "Atomic Homefront" won the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Domestic Television and the 2019 Impact Docs Award for Best Documentary Film.[3]