Azza C.

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Azza Cohen is a documentary filmmaker and historian currently based in New York City. She holds a master’s degree in colonial history from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton University. She has experience directing, producing, editing and teaching documentary film. She has filmed from a moving rickshaw in Sanchi, India, held a waterproofing garbage bag gingerly over a lens in Dublin, Ireland, and held the camera steady with a chollo cactus stuck in her foot – Azza brings a positive attitude, creative eyes, and problem solving skills from artistic and academic endeavors. Her documentary work includes: Specks of Dust, a documentary profiling a group of Indian activists fighting human trafficking on the India-Nepal border; Desert Laboratory, a short on the apprentices of the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright; and Refugee, Refugee, a microdocumentary following a Rwandan refugee adjusting to life in the USA. She thrives through multimedia storytelling and scholarship, through pieces such as: “The Invisible Irish Border” (invisibleirishborder.tumblr.com) on the effects of Brexit on rural border towns in Ireland and “Jigsaw City” (jigsawcity.tumblr.com) on the problem of racial segregation in St. Louis. Her current projects include The Last Statesman, a documentary on Senator George Mitchell and the lost art of bipartisanship; REPEAL, a chronicle of the abortion debate in Ireland; and Making It, a multimedia project following women in the film industry.

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