Mary Patierno is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and film editor whose most recent film was the Ford Foundation funded, Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS. It was released in November 2017 and has screened at documentary festivals throughout the world, including HotDocs and DocNYC. Her documentary, Vieques: Worth Every Bit of Struggle, won Best Documentary at the New Vision Award (2005) from New Screen TV. Previous work includes The Most Unknowable Thing was selected as part of The New Documentaries (2000) series at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. It was nominated for a 2000 International Documentary Association Achievement Award and was awarded Outstanding Documentary Feature at Outfest’99 in Los Angeles, the Reelings’99 Film and Video Festival in Chicago, and The Miami Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. It also won Best Documentary Short and the Audience Award at Reel Affirmations Film and Video Festival in Washington, DC.
Her collaborations include Abigail Child (Origin of the Species, Acts & Intermissions, A Shape of Error, On the Downlow and Surf and Turf), S’OB Productions (Revisiting Haiti and Heroin, USA), PBS News Hour, Diller + Scofidio, The Asia Society, 651/Brooklyn Academy of Music and USAID.
She is a 2021 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and was a 1989 and 2002 recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and is a long time instructor at the MFA Photo Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
For links to other films by Mary Patierno visit the director’s website.