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Dana Brandes-Simon is a Brooklyn-based journalist, documentary filmmaker, and part-time professor at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Last year, she was a producer on the second season of a hit documentary series on Netflix. In the same year, she worked closely with A24 to develop a new documentary series where she directed multiple shoots with celebrity talent. She was a staff Development Producer at Ark Media, where she developed and sold multiple series and feature films to major distributors. Previously, she field-produced Kate Stonehill's feature documentary, Phantom Parrot. In 2021, she traveled across the U.S. for Showtime's Emmy-nominated political documentary series, The Circus: The Greatest Political Show on Earth. That same year, she produced conceptual artist Jill Magid's short film, Tender, for Field of Vision and First Look Media. She got her start at Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, where she worked on CNN’s Death Row Stories and HBO Max’s Generation Hustle.
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