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, Oberhausen, BAFICI, RIDM, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, Kasseler Dokfest, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, and others.

Her work has shown at art centers including Jeu de Paume, CCCB, the Jameel Arts Center, Maysles Documentary Center, and REDCAT. She holds a BFA in Theater and Performing Arts from Bard College and an MFA in film/video from California Institute of the Arts.

As a producer, she focuses on creative forms of narrative and nonfiction projects exhibited at IFFR, Tribeca, IndieLisboa, BFI London, 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, Big Sky Pitch, and more.

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