Domenica Cameron-Scorsese

Domenica Cameron-Scorsese is an award winning filmmaker whose feature film debut, Almost Paris, premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. It went on to play the festival circuit with multiple nominations and wins, including Best First Feature Director at the Big River Film Festival (where Domenica was also nominated for Female Filmmaker of the Year) and the Audience Choice Award at the Beaufort International Film Festival. Her previous short films Spanish Boots and Roots in Water  also premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival (The latter went on to play “Best of Fest” at the Chicago International Film Festival and was nominated for three Maverick Movie Awards). Her first short, A Little God , won the Torchlight Short Film Award at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2001.

Domenica began her storytelling professionally at the age of eleven as an actress in Chicago - later growing into a writer/director/producer. Aside from being born into a film family and having the privilege as a child to work with both her mother (Julia Cameron) and her father (Martin Scorsese), she has gone on to work with multiple Oscar, Emmy, and Tony award winners and nominees appearing in over twenty films and several off-Broadway and regional plays. While in New York, Domenica was an associate director for the multimedia lab BdA, helping develop new plays. Since returning to Chicago, she directed her first full-length theatrical production, Caryl Churchill’s A Number, with the Runcible Theatre Company at the Royal George Theatre.

Domenica studied film at Wesleyan University (CT), where she also helped produce, write and direct for the student playwrights’ workshop. In the summers, she trained at The Neighborhood Playhouse and American Conservatory Theater. She has served on many festival juries including the Santa Barbara Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival. She has been a guest lecturer at Wesleyan University (CT) and Yale University and is a frequent panelist at festivals.

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