A woman with shoulder-length dark hair and bangs looks intently to the left with her chin resting lightly on her fingers. Headshot of Natalie Patillo
Natalie Pattillo
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Director

Natalie Pattillo is an award-winning, New York-based multimedia journalist. Her reporting bylines include the New York Times, MSNBC, VICE, Jezebel, New York Magazine, Al Jazeera America and Salon. In 2020, she was awarded the Media Award from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She received a Master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School in 2017. Because Natalie has experienced domestic violence in a past relationship, her mission to uplift survivors and their stories is a personal one. Natalie’s own experiences as a survivor, as well as the passing of her sister who was killed at the hands of an abusive boyfriend in 2010, helps her understand what position the survivors in the film might have been in when they were fighting for their lives.

Natalie was supported through our 2021 Project: Hatched grant.

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Emily Cohen Ibañez looking directly at the camera. She has short grey and dark brown hair and is wearing gold earrings, lipstick, and a striped T-shirt.
Emily Cohen Ibañez
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Jerry Risius holds a camera on his shoulder and smiles directly at the camera.
Jerry Risius
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Beth Levison looks at the camera and smiles.
Beth Levison
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Cai Thomas looks directly at the camera. She has short hair and wears a cap. Portrait in black and white.
Cai Thomas
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Leah Galant is smiling at the camera.
Leah Galant
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Maya Cueva looks at the camera.
Maya Cueva
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Ann Kaneko smirks while looking directly at the camera.
Ann Kaneko
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Mia Donovan looks away from the camera. She wears a dark outfit. Portrait in black and white.
Mia Donovan
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Ash Goh Hua looking straight ahead. She has shoulder-length dark hair partially tied up in a bun.
Ash Goh Hua
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A black and white portrait of filmmaker Brooke Pepion Swaney. A young woman with shoulder length dark hair looks intently at the camera. She wears a collared shirt and a crew neck sweater over it.
Brooke Pepion Swaney
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A black and white portrait of Daniel Nelson. A white man with a beard and mustache is surrounded by film cameras, he looks down to the right through a camera lens he holds.
Daniel A. Nelson
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