Vanessa is an editor of Emmy Award winning feature length documentaries and non-fiction television. With 15 years of experience in crafting intimate and emotionally impactful stories, her work has premiered at major film festivals including SXSW, Tribeca, Berlin, and DOCNYC and screened on platforms such as HBO, PBS, Netflix, MGM+, VICE and more. Her latest film GREENER PASTURES (PBS) which follows four midwest farmers battling mental health issues premieres spring 2024 on PBS Independent Lens. Her feature work includes the Emmy award winning film MEDORA (Beachside Films), which tells the story of one small town's struggle to survive through the lens of it's winless high school basketball team, THE BOXERS OF BRULE (Vice) which follows a young Lakota woman as she works to combat suicide and addiction through creating a girls' boxing team, the innovative news series AXIOS (HBO), and GAYCATION (Viceland) the Emmy nominated docuseries hosted by Elliot Page.
In addition to her documentary work, Vanessa has also cut numerous short form content for clients such as Audi, Calvin Klein, Capital One, D'Addario & Co, Hugo Boss, Louis Vuitton, Microsoft, NPR, The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Vogue. She is a co-founder of the women run production company Co-founder of the women led production company Bunny Lake Films
Based in Los Angeles, available worldwide.