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Katja Esson

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Katja Esson is an Academy and Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker based in Miami. Known for her intimate character-driven documentaries tackling race, class, and gender, her credits include FERRY TALES which turns the unlikely setting of the Staten Island Ferry Powder Room into a celebration of sisterhood (HBO 2004). In 2007, HOLE IN THE SKY - THE SCARS OF 9/11 received the Gold-Award at the World-Media-Festival. Her 2011 film SKYDANCER, about two Mohawk ironworkers torn between the Akwesasne reservation and New York City, received nominations for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Cinematography at the Shanghai Film Festival and premiered on PBS and ARTE in 2011. Katja's POETRY OF RESILIENCE was nominated for the Cinema for Peace Award in 2012. Her five-part documentary series BACKROADS USA (2014) and AMERICAN RIVERS (2016) premiered on ARTE and PBS in 2018. A Simons-Public Humanities Fellow at Kansas University, her films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, American Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian. Katja's work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Knight Foundation, ITVS, IDA Enterprise, NYSCA, the Redford Center, Sundance and the Ford Foundation.

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Filmography

Actor

2

Anke Late Night TV Series2004Self

Menschen der Woche Poster

Menschen der Woche TV Series2000Self

Director

25

Type

Year

Razing Liberty Square - Independent Lens Poster

Razing Liberty Square - Independent Lens Mini-Series2024

Razing Liberty Square Poster

Razing Liberty Square Feature Film2023

Amerikas Flüsse Poster

Amerikas Flüsse TV Series2016

Backroads USA Poster

Backroads USA Mini-Series2015

Backroads USA Poster

Backroads USA TV Series2013

NY Confidential Poster

NY Confidential TV Series2011

Poetry of Resilience Poster

Poetry of Resilience Short Film2011

Skydancer Poster

Skydancer Documentary2011

Hooker, Harlot, Whore, Stories of Prostitution TV Movie2010

Latching On Poster

Latching On Documentary2009

We Are New York Poster

We Are New York TV Series2009

A Season of Madness Short Film2006

Der Hafen von New York TV Movie2006

Hole in the Sky: The Scars of 9/11 Documentary2006

Tore zur Welt TV Series2006

The WIN Awards Poster

The WIN Awards TV Special2005

Vermisst - Das Geiseldrama in der Wüste Documentary2005

Siegfried & Roy - Ein Märchen für Erwachsene Documentary2004

Adam - Retortenbaby als Lebensretter Documentary2003

Après la une TV Series2003

Ferry Tales Poster

Ferry Tales Short Film2003

Searching for Sense Short Film2002

Vertical Traveler Short Film2000

Länder - Menschen - Abenteuer Poster

Länder - Menschen - Abenteuer TV Series1975

Cantineros de Cuba: WT Documentary

Writer

17

Type

Year

Amerikas Flüsse Poster

Amerikas Flüsse TV Series2016

Backroads USA Poster

Backroads USA Mini-Series2015

Backroads USA Poster

Backroads USA TV Series2013

NY Confidential Poster

NY Confidential TV Series2011

Poetry of Resilience Poster

Poetry of Resilience Short Film2011

Skydancer Poster

Skydancer Documentary2011

Latching On Poster

Latching On Documentary2009

A Season of Madness Short Film2006

Der Hafen von New York TV Movie2006

Hole in the Sky: The Scars of 9/11 Documentary2006

Vermisst - Das Geiseldrama in der Wüste Documentary2005

Siegfried & Roy - Ein Märchen für Erwachsene Documentary2004

Adam - Retortenbaby als Lebensretter Documentary2003

Ferry Tales Poster

Ferry Tales Short Film2003

Vertical Traveler Short Film2000

Länder - Menschen - Abenteuer Poster

Länder - Menschen - Abenteuer TV Series1975

Cantineros de Cuba: WT Documentary

Producer

13

Type

Year

Razing Liberty Square - Independent Lens Poster

Razing Liberty Square - Independent Lens Mini-Series2024

Razing Liberty Square Poster

Razing Liberty Square Feature Film2023

Without a Whisper: KONNON- KWE Short Film2020

Ohero: kon - Under the Husk Short Film2018

Backroads USA Poster

Backroads USA Mini-Series2015

Backroads USA Poster

Backroads USA TV Series2013

Poetry of Resilience Poster

Poetry of Resilience Short Film2011

Skydancer Poster

Skydancer Documentary2011

Latching On Poster

Latching On Documentary2009

A Season of Madness Short Film2006

Ferry Tales Poster

Ferry Tales Short Film2003

Vertical Traveler Short Film2000

Cantineros de Cuba: WT Documentary

Cinematographer

3

Type

Year

Latching On Poster

Latching On Documentary2009

Hole in the Sky: The Scars of 9/11 Documentary2006

Ferry Tales Poster

Ferry Tales Short Film2003

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