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Maria is a director, producer and cinematographer based in New York City. She was most recently a producer on National Geographic's "Explorer" series. In 2011, her fllm "Sarabah", premiered at the 2011 Movies That Matter Film Festival, winning the Matter of ACT prize for Best Documentary. It screened at forty festivals around the world, has been broadcast on Link TV in the US, France and Sweden and won the She CINE Golden Eagle Award for Independent Television Documentary in 2012. Gambale has worked as a cinematographer and producer in both fiction and documentary for the past 20 years, and also writes political and social interest essays for "PassBlue." She frequently teaches film-making, and has done so in the past with Reel Works Teen Film-making in Brooklyn; the International Film & Video Workshops in Rockport, Maine; Boston Film and Video Foundation; and Bilgi Üniversitesi in Istanbul.
With Peter Sagal of NPR fame, explored male enhancement industries in Istanbul, Turkey and Frankfurt, Germany - with a focus on the aesthetics of the procedures and the psychology of men who will go to enormous lengths to change their appearance.
A tour through some of Rome's non-profit organizations and charities trying to ease the arduous refugee journey through Italy; with accompanying article.
This 2011 film tells the story of Sister Fa, a trailblazing Senegalese singer and activist on the rise. Music and activism share the focus as she tours southern Senegal in 2010, and gets young people talking and singing about an issue - female genital cutting - that had been completely taboo.
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