Discipline: Film/Video

Daria Sommers

Discipline: Film/Video
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006
More: www.dariasommers.com
Daria Sommers is a New York-based filmmaker whose work includes both documentaries and narrative fiction. She is the co-director and co-producer of Lioness, winner of Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award at the Full Frame Film Festival in 2008 and which was broadcast nationally on the PBS series “Independent Lens.” Some of Daria’s previous films include Eastern Spirit Western World, which was nationally broadcast by PBS, BBC, CBC, French and Chinese Television and premiered at the Smithsonian Institution, as well as the narrative work Ready To Burn, recipient of the Panavision New Director’s Award. She has received awards from the NEH, the NEA, The John Whitney Payson Fund, the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Fledgling Fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Rockefeller Family & Associates, The Open Society and NYSCA. She has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell and Mass MoCA and served on the Metropolitan Museum’s Program for Art on Film.

Studios

Mixter

Daria Sommers worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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