Annelise Ayuravann Ratner

(pictured here. with my friend, Sassy.)

Brooklyn, NY

Hello! I’m a Cambodian American freelance filmmaker and photographer. I love traveling, morning cup(s) of coffee, Spotify, and yapping about Foothills (foothillsfilm.org), a film collective that my friends and I formed during the COVID-19 pandemic. I try to create and share stories that are emotionally intimate and formally inventive. And having mostly grown up in Southeast Asia and now being in NYC, I think a lot about how to engage responsibly with storytelling and its politics. Enough reading — reach out!

BA in Film, Yale University, 2023

Awards and Features

Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts | Yale University, Class of 2023

Work featured in…

  • Center for Khmer Studies — 2023

  • Bushwick Film Festival — 2023

  • “Speaking into Being: Beyond Asian Silence” at the Yale School of Architecture — 2021

  • New Haven Documentary Film Festival (NHDocs) — 2020

  • DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) — 2019