Documentary. 15mn. 2023.
Director/Writer
A story about the unlikely aftermath of one of America’s most iconic mass shootings.
Selection: Odense Film Festival 2023, London Short Film Festival 2024.
Feature project selections: SCAM Brouillon d’un Rêve 2021, MeetMarket 2020, Points North Institute Artists Program 2019.
Proof of concept for feature-length project. Proposal/Sample on Request
Feature Documentary. 70mn. 2021.
What if a dog was a message in a bottle? Three prisoners from different worlds spend a year training Eli, an unruly Labrador puppy, to become a highly-disciplined guide dog.
CREDITS:
Co-director/ Producer / DP – Nora Mandray
Co-Director/Producer – Jason B. Kohl
Executive Produced by Sophie Robinson, Emmy Nominee for NETFLIX’s My Beautiful Broken Brain
Sound Design – Jesse Peterson | Composer – Heavy Color | Colorist – Bernie Greiner | Production Assistants – Lillie Harman, Jules Leaño, Vera Mayskaya, Madison Moore | World Sales – The Film Sales Company
Supported by SCAM*Brouillon d’un Rêve, Puffin Foundation, Eastman Foundation. Selected at 2019 Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket.
Available on Topic (North America only).
90mn. 2020.
Through a mix of vérité, reenactments and VHS archives, we track a woman's intimate quest to recover from incest.
CREDITS
A film by Jon Bulette
Writers / Co-Directors (reenactments): Nora Mandray & Jason B. Kohl
Edited by 2x Emmy Winner Viridiana Lieberman (HBO’s The Sentence).
Produced by VICE Media, Gebrueder Beetz (NETFLIX’s A Perfect Crime) and NDR.
Festivals: Sheffield Doc/Fest, DokuFest, London Short Film Festival
CREDITS
EP’d by Charlotte Cook & Laura Poitras
Directed by Nora Mandray
Cinematography: Jakob Stark & Tobias von dem Borne | Editing: Nora Mandray | Sound: Jason B. Kohl | Assistants: Lillie Harman, Vera Mayskaya, Madison Moore.
"Dancing With Le Pen" is a Field of Vision project.
In France’s last presidential election, Marine Le Pen, a right-wing candidate, won over 30 percent of the vote after an attempt to rebrand a party long associated with her controversial father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. See how three of her supporters faced similar obstacles in changing the narrative.
Facing a brutal Detroit winter, a willful urban farmer sets out to transform an abandoned house into a greenhouse.
World Premiere: Berlinale 2014. Festivals: Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Camden International, Traverse City, Odense, Films de Femmes Créteil, Contis, Dallas International, Martha's Vineyard, Turin Cinemambiente, Milwaukee, Flagstaff Mountain, Devour!, Green Film Festival Seoul, UK Green Film Festival, Värmsland, Festival de la Jarry, Effet de CER, La Novela, Freep Film Festival...
Awards: Best Short Doc 2014 at Innsbruck Nature Film Festival, Best Short Doc 2015 UK Green Film Festival
Directed/Produced by Nora Mandray
Cinematography: Eric Baldetti | Editing: Nora Mandray | Sound: Brandon Jones | Addtl Camera: Nora Mandray | Associate Producer: Jason B. Kohl & Hélène Bienvenu | Assistants: Shelbie L. Dodt, Kendall Waterman, Emily Biegas
"3 Acres in Detroit" is part of the "DIY Manifesto" Trilogy.
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Fender Bender, a women/trans/queer bike workshop collective, puts together the first bike-sharing program of Detroit. One bike at a time, they build community.
World Premiere: BFI Flare 2015. Festivals: Frameline, Reeling Chicago, Capital City, Brussels Pink Screens, SQIFF, Tel Aviv LGBT, Rochester Bike Festival, Wee Green Cinema, UK Green Film Fest, La Novela ...Selected as part of the British Council 5Films4Freedom Initiative as well as by Future Shorts for PEN International.
Directed by Nora Mandray
Cinematography by: Eric Baldetti | Editing & Addtl Camera: Nora Mandray | Sound: Brandon Jones
This film is part of the DIY Manifesto Trilogy.
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World Premiere: LA Film Festival 2015.
In a heavily polluted Detroit neighborhood, community advocate Theresa sets out to build a MESH network to fight the expansion of the nearby factory.
CREDITS:
Directed by Nora Mandray
Cinematography: Eric Baldetti | Editing & Addtl Camera: Nora Mandray | Sound: Brandon Jones
This film is a part of the "DIY Manifesto" trilogy.
The Detroit MESH network is an initiative of the non-profit Allied Media Projects. Check out their good work here!
Part of ARTE's interactive documentary SOUNDHUNTERS
Co-director | DP
In Berlin, 19-year-old Tarik balances out his German-Turkish identities with his boxing and transition to adulthood. Electronic musician Daedalus transforms his world into a song filled with both strength and longing.
Festivals: New York Film Festival, SXSW, Fipa D’or, Bizarritz.
Cinematography & Produced by Nora Mandray | Directed & Edited by Jason B. Kohl
Synopsis: A native american fishing couple negotiate the changing waters beneath them.
2014 Festivals: Los Angeles, Maryland, Traverse City, Best Short / East Lansing. Acquired by AMEX/Seed and Spark for TV Distribution.
GENERALI’s The Human Safety Net promotes equal life chances for disadvantaged children. We filmed one of its beneficiaries, Rosalina, who lives in the ZEN neighborhood of Palermo, Sicily. Although it has been coined “the roughest neighborhood in Italy,” what we captured was a story of tenderness.
Agency: Purpose
Director/Producer: Nora Mandray
DP: Daniel Obradovic
Sound: Mirko Cangiamila
Fixer/Translator: Eugenio De Rosa
Editor: Julian Neville
Music: Perera Elsewhere
Sound Mixing/Design: Moritz Staub
Grading: Bernie Greiner
Post House: Digital Straik
ICRC Legacy | Alberto Cairo
Filmed on location at the ICRC Rehabilitation Clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Client: ICRC
Directed by Nora Mandray
Produced by MAKO Films
DP: Jakob Stark
Editor: Julian Neville
Assistant Editor: Marius Wawer
Colorist: Bernie Greiner
Sound Design: Studio Mitte/Sonnenstudio
Music: Perera Elsewhere