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