Films
Biography
Shanna Maurizi (USA) studied Photography, Film and Painting at San Francisco State University and UC Santa Cruz, and received an MFA in Film from California College of the Arts. Her works in experimental photography, sculpture, film and expanded cinema have been exhibited at festivals, museums, galleries and cinematheques worldwide including Ann Arbor Film Festival (MI), MediaCity Film Festival (CA), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Famous Accountants (NYC) and many others. Her film Sunken Treasure won the Art and Science Award at the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival, her short film Late Night with Carl Sagan premiered at NewFilmmakers NYC, and she was nominated for Best Emerging Director for her first feature at Visionfest (NYC) in 2011. Her artwork in the gallery context has been shown most recently at LaMaMa Gallery (NYC), and her previous solo shows in NYC were Critic’s Picks. She has been awarded grants and residencies such as with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, and the Warhol Foundation. As a curator she co-founded The Red Door and The Climax A Movie House (Oakland CA) and the collective space Songs for Presidents (NYC). As an educator she has taught in the film department at NYU and currently develops and leads 16mm workshops in Detroit with Mothlight Collective.