BIO
Mina’s directorial work has screened internationally at San Sebastian Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, and Maryland Film Festival, and garnered awards such as the Loni Ding Social Justice Award at CAAMFest and Best Documentary Short at Winchester Film Festival. Mina was a contributing editor in the 2019 Sundance Editing Labs. Her cinematography work was recognized by the American Society of Cinematographers as a finalist for the Haskell Wexler Documentary Award in 2016. Mina graduated with an MFA from Northwestern’s Documentary Media Program as a Hoffman Scholar in 2017. She is a former Fulbright Scholar (2011-2013) and Special Faculty member in the Program of Film and Video at the California Institute of the Arts, teaching cinematography and documentary production (2019-2021).
She is a founding member of the Film Collective SITE, and an active member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, A-Doc and Video Consortium.
EXHIBITS | LABS
Berlinale Talents Program, DocStation - (2022)
San Sebastián International Film Festival - Ikusmira Berriak Residency (2021)
The Sundance Institute - Story and Edit Lab, Contributing Editor (2019)
California Institute of the Arts - Cinematic Voices, Selected Works (2019)
Northwestern University - Hoffman Scholar (2015-2017)
Hyde Park Art Center - The GroundFloor Biennial Exhibit, Wandervogel (2017)
San Sebastian International Film Festival - International Student Showcase, Wandervogel (2017)
Kartemquin Films - Diverse Voices in Documentary Fellow (2015)
CONTACT
minafitzpatrick@gmail.com