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Julianna Brannum, Rebecca Hill-Genia, Treva Wurmfeld and Charlie Certain attend the World Premiere of CONSCIENCE POINT at HIFF27 in 2019. (Photo by Steven Henry/Getty Images for HamptonsFilm)
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Treva Wurmfeld is an award winning documentary filmmaker. Her feature directorial debut, Shepard & Dark, made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012 and won top awards at the Woodstock Int. Film Festival, the Cleveland Int. Film Festival and the Florida Film Festival. That year, Wurmfeld was included in Filmmakers 25 new faces of Independent Film. Shepard & Dark was an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival and Wurmfeld was nominated for the Camera d'Or prize. Shepard & Dark is distributed by Oscilloscope Films and her book Tangents: From the Making of Shepard & Dark was released in 2023.
Her second feature documentary, Conscience Point, premiered at the Hampton’s Int’l Film Festival in 2019 where it picked up the Rabinowitz & Grant award for Social Justice. The film was supported by ITVS and received the Pare Lorentz grant from the IDA. It was broadcast on PBS’ Independent Lens Fall 2019 and is distributed by Women Make Movies and Java Films. A podcast version of the story was commissioned by a BBC & Sundance Institute collaboration in 2018.
Earlier in her career, Wurmfeld wrote and directed the hybrid short film, Oyster (2008) and later the documentary short, The Hama Hama Way (2016).
When not working on her own films she can be found producing EPK for studio films. Wurmfeld received her MFA from Hunter College, in 2006. She is based in Los Angeles and is a dual citizen of the US and UK.