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Ora DeKornfeld

Cinematographer, Director

• About Me

  Ora DeKornfeld is an Emmy-nominated video journalist and filmmaker based in Arizona. She’s a former journalist at the New York Times, who now seeks to shed light on the human condition through cinematic documentary storytelling.

  
  

  After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she went on to create work for the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, CNN’s Courageous, Great Big Story and TED. Ora’s independent work has received multiple awards from Picture of the Year International, including first place for Feature Multimedia as well as the White House News Photographers Association and South by Southwest Film Festival. In 2015, she was named on PDN’s 20 Emerging Artists to Watch in Film and Video. Her work has been showcased on National Geographic, The Atlantic, The Webby Awards, and the New Orleans Film Festival, among others.

  
  
  

  Interests

  Immigration, Documentaries

  Skills

  Cinematography