Arianna Lapenne is an experienced filmmaker and director of photography who has worked on numerous documentary films and television series covering social and environmental issues. Some of her credits include the Peabody Award-winning "No Le Digas A Nadie" for PBS, the Emmy award-winning climate change series "Years of Living Dangerously" for Showtime, and the Vice News and National Geographic documentaries. She holds a BFA in film from New York University and has extensive experience shooting in challenging locations around the world.
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EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
Filmmaker and Director of Photography
2016 “Child, Bride, Mother: Nepal”, doc for New York Times Sunday Review about child marriage in Nepal.
2015 “Disregarding Gaza”, Short doc about the 2014 war in Gaza for +972 Israeli digital magazine.
2014 “This Is Life After Gezi Park Protests In Turkey”, Short doc shot in Turkey for Al Jazeera Plus.
2014 “What Happens If Your Town Runs Out of Water?”, Short doc for National Geographic digital.
2012 “Lights Out in the Rockaways and Surviving in the Rockaways”, Short docs for New York Times about
Hurricane Sandy. Won Edward R. Murrow award for breaking news videos.
2015 “No Le Digas A Nadie”, Peabody Award-winning PBS & POV broadcast documentary film.
2015 “A Woman's Place”, Doc series on feminism in Egypt, Turkey, Senegal, Ecuador, Sweden for Refinery 29.
2015-2016 “WOMAN”, Gloria Steinem exec-produced doc series on women's rights for VICELAND TV.
2014 “Years of Living Dangerously”, Emmy award-winning SHOWTIME series on climate change. Various eps.
2013 “Serrano Shoots Cuba”, Feature doc about infamous artist Andres Serrano, VICE 3 part Special.
2015 “Deep Run”, Sundance granted and WMM supported doc, Executive Produced by Susan Sarandon.
2016 “The Girl Project”, Doc series about girls’ education in Africa, Latin America & India for Glamour.
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, BFA Film and TV, January 2005.
Minor in Photography, GPA3.7, Dean’s List. NYU Tisch Special Programs, Havana, Cuba.
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Selected Feature Documentaries:
Selected Commercial:
2014 “Ambassadors Project”, Hewlett-Packard campaign. Dir Andrew Zucchero.
2013 “Run For”, Dick's Sporting Goods campaign. Dir Nick Carbonaro.
2013 “Survivors”, Delete Blood Cancer campaign. Dir Daniel Lwowski.
2012 “Google +: Sarah Hill”, Google + spot. Dir Todd Lamb.
RED, ARRI, Sony, Canon, Ronin, Movi, Stage & location lighting. Conversational Spanish & Italian.
On-location Experience: Extensive throughout Latin America, Africa, India and the Middle East.
Extreme conditions including jungle, desert, marine and sub-zero, covering conflict and protest,
environmental and human rights violations and issues.
2016 “Designed to Impact”, Commercial campaign shot throughout India for West Elm.
Selected Television and Episodic:
2013-2016 Various documentary video episodes for international news channel Vice News.
2015 “Financial Inclusion”, Campaign throughout Africa for Mastercard. Dir Shravan Vidyarthi.
2016 “Cocoavia”, two spots for a new product for MARS Candy. DirectorandDP.
2014 “Invention Factory”, Doc series about the future of technology for General Electric with VICE Media.
Jungle embed with the FARC in Colombia, gang wars in El Salvador, motherhood in prison, Gloria studio intros.
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2016 “Gaycation”, Deep South and France epsiodes for Season 2, VICELAND TV.
2016 “National Geographic Explorer”, new season of flagship Nat Geo show exploring world issues, Nat Geo TV.