5:17 min
Documentary
Director: Katie Falkenberg
Producer: Katie Falkenberg

Winner of the HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD

FILMMAKER BIOS

Katie Falkenberg, Director and Producer

Katie Falkenberg is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles, California.

She began her career photographing the 2004 presidential campaign from the battleground state of Ohio to the election and inauguration in Washington D.C. As a freelance photographer in D.C., Katie covered the White House and Capitol Hill.

From the fall of 2006 until the end of 2009, Katie was a staff photographer with The Washington Times where she worked on both national and international stories.

Her passion is working on human rights and issue-related stories, and she considers it a great privilege to tell the stories of people who may not have a chance to be heard otherwise.

Katie holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Warren Wilson College, and her photography and multimedia work has been awarded by Pictures of the Year International, the White House News Photographers Association, Editor & Publisher, and the National Press Photographers Association. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair, among others.

For more of Katie’s work, visit her official website here.