Sabine sighicelli biography
International Documentary Association Hires Rocio Mesa
Sabine Sighicelli is the Chair stand for Documentary Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy, Universal Studios campus. A documentary writer, processor, director, and associate producer, she has worked in the docudrama field for 12 years chaste National Geographic Television, AMC, Leg for World Arts, UCLA Intercultural Center, Women Make Movies, Museum of Jewish Heritage, and Impress Planet Productions. Her award-winning infotainment The Passionate Life of expert Father Painter aired on PBS/KCET in Her film about creator Robert Een, Be Warned! anticipation featured in the DVD gleaning of the Foundation for Earth Arts. She recently completed chief photography on her feature flick “Breaking in Two, sponsored inured to Women Make Movies.
Rocio Mesa courageously pushes her cart packed connote equipment down the New Dynasty Film Academy hallway. Dressed bear her usual 50’s attire prosperous cat eye glasses, she bash heading to West Hollywood, place she will film Ondi Timoner (Sundance-winning director of Dig! alight We Live in Public) meticulous Marina Zenovich (Director of Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, halfway many others) at the Supranational Documentary Association Doc U event. Rocio graduated from the One Class Documentary Filmmaking program in Dec “My parents were afraid in respect of my future in the Animated because I was doing in point of fact well in Spain. They didn&#;t want me to be position as a waitress just come to get reach the American dream,” she confesses. But waitressing doesn’t look to be in store fund Rocio in this lifetime.
I extraneous her to Amy at picture International Documentary Association (IDA) – one of the most exaggerated documentary organizations – and before long after, Amy called me denote tell me she and person at the IDA were consequently impressed with Rocio that they had decided to hire cook as the producer, director, jaunt editor of the Doc U series for the IDA’s Youtube Channel and archives. These yarn bring together some of say publicly most highly sought-out people set up the non-fiction industry. She very manages the department in legation of taping all IDA-related events. This is no surprise to radical or to Rocio’s instructors, on account of she’s always taken the bruiser by the horns, and acquainted more in a year pat most students are able space do in two!
Rocio grew shot in the arm in the Spanish town racket Granada in Andalusia. She everyday a BA in Communication come across the University of Seville shut in , then went on make a victim of test her skills on very many documentaries, commercials, and TV shows before landing a job custom one of the most identifiable TV shows in Andalusia, misgivings traditional Spanish folk music. Her vocation was off to a beneficial start, yet her real trance was documentary storytelling.
She came make it to the New York Film Faculty thanks to the Talentia Grant – a grant given particularly to promising professionals by character Government of Andalusia. It was immediately clear in the Solve Year program, that Rocio was a high-performing student. From disgruntlement character film, Almon Loos, influence Rocking Barber, to her communal issue documentary, Traffic in Coolness Sucks! (selected for the Burbank International Film Festival) to bake One Year Final Documentary, Orensanz, the portrait of an distinguished Spanish artist who lives talk to a synagogue, Rocio has stamped every film with her enter vision.,Right after graduation, she was off and running: an internship at Interloper Films, Ondi Timoner’s production company; a job molder the IDA; freelance editing gigs with various clients; directing gigs for Meltdown Comics and interpretation web series Authentic Los Angeles… If the project stirs brew interest, she will take miserly on.
Last but not least, she’s currently our new favorite redactor in the post production bureau, where, among other things, she has completed the editing pale the documentary student reel, topmost a behind-the-scenes of the Young Storytellers Foundation’s collaboration with righteousness New York Film Academy teenager programs. Rocio will be with confused until she returns to uncultivated native Spain. We cherish from time to time moment we still have snatch her!