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EDUCATION

NYU Tisch Film MFA
University of Pennsylvania, BA Cum Laude, English and Creative Writing

Festivals/ Aquisitions/

FESTIVALS and ACQUISITIONS:

Cannes, SXSW, TIFF, BFI, Hamptons, Aspen, Palm Springs, HollyShorts, Raindance, Nashville, Cairo, VIFF and many more

THE PASS short film has been acquired by Criterion Channel, Arte, Canal+, The New Yorker

WASSUPKAYLEE has been aquired by ARTE

Vimeo Staff Pick

AWARDS and NOMINATIONS:

2025 –

25 New Faces of Independent Cinema

Square Peg Social

HamptonsFilm Screenwriting Lab, Melissa Mathison Award – THE MIREX

2023 –

Purple List Prize Winner 2023, NUY Production Lab Development Fellow –  HAAZER

2021 –

Princess Grace Foundation Grant Honoraria, IFP/Marcie Bloom Fellow, Production Lab Development Studio Fellow, 2021, Wasserman Awards First Prize

2020 –

NY Festivals Bowery Awards Grand Prize Winner, 2020

BAFTA NY HBO Scholarship Nominee

MUSIC VIDEOS –

Have played on Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste and more

FILMS

NARRATIVE

Wassupkaylee (19 min), 2024

The Pass (15 min), 2022

Bad Candy (11min), 2019

Swallow Grass Snakes (7min), 2018

LAM/B (4min), 2017

Alba and June (12min), 2017

The Blue Dot (6 min), 2016

 

Commercial/ Music Video/ Print

John Cale – Noise of You, How We See the Light (Domino Records 2023, 2024)

Angelica Garcia – Juanita (Partisan Records, 2024)

Ela Minus – El Cielo No Es Nadie (2020 Domino Records)

Garage x Gucci Presents: Lifted, 2019

Talk Magazine: The Holiday, (Print)

Isabella Lovestory Humo (2019 True Panther Sounds)

 

Music Career: 2008 – 2017

Professional Musician and Songwriter | Pepi Ginsberg, N-A-R-C, Companion | USA

Five LP’s and two EP’s released with successful national press, national radio campaigns and national tours.

Press reviews include: Pitchfork, MTV, NPR, Stereogum, The Fader, Rolling Stone and many more.

The Pass Narrative

The Pass Narrative

    Starring  Angus O'Brien, JaQwan Kelly, Paul Bomba, Blanche Akonchong and Joseph Longo Executive Producer Aaron Z. Willson Production Company  Ground Work Director  Pepi Ginsberg Producers Joseph Longo, Maria Akay and Pepi Ginsberg Director of Photography  Melanie Akoka Original Score Martin Crane Sound Design and Editing  Ian Cymore Editors Pepi Ginsberg and Andrew Stephen Lee Casting  Kate Antognini Script Consultant  Jorge Sistos AD Sofia Camargo Sound Mixer Boris Krichevsky AC Asia Khmelova