Zazie Ray-Trapido is a filmmaker and producer based in Los Angeles. Her films expand on traditional formats of documentary and narrative, engaging with analog film techniques, archives, and performance. Her practice investigates relationships between memory, ideology, and the environment. Her work has screened at festivals and venues worldwide, such as the New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Viennale, BAFICI, Curtas Vila do Conde, Glasgow Short Film Festival, ICDOCS, RIDM, Kasseler Dokfest, Oberhausen, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, and others.

Additionally, she has had work shown at art centers including CCCB, the Jameel Arts Center, Jeu de Paume, Maysles Documentary Center, and REDCAT. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Theater and Performing Arts from Bard College and a master’s degree in film from California Institute of the Arts.

As a producer, she focuses on creative forms of narrative and nonfiction projects exhibited at IFFR, Tribeca, IndieLisboa, and DOC NYC, and supported by Ikusmira Berriak, Chicken & Egg, Sundance Institute, ICA (Portugal’s Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual), New York State Council for the Arts, Ji.hlava, Yale University, Berlinale Talents, and Big Sky Pitch.

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