Danya Abt
Danya Abt is a Brooklyn-based film director and editor. She keeps one foot planted in the documentary art world and one in more broadly distributed documentary forms. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and a former Uniondocs Studio Collaborative fellow. Danya’s films have played at the Museum of Modern Art, the True/False and Camden Film Festivals, DOC NYC, and others. Her piece for BBC Reel, “The Cake That Survived WW2,” was selected for a Lovie Award “Honoring the best of the European Internet.” Her work as an editor includes documentaries and TV series for Vice, Showtime, PBS, and the History Channel. She is an active member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and the Alliance of Documentary Editors.
Discipline: Film, video
Project vision
The Rockaway peninsula of NYC is the jumping-off point for “The Deep,” an experiential documentary about life at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. Interconnected stories unfold around the shifting, ever-changing space between water and land, testing this boundary and raising questions about our elemental relationship to water.
https://www.danyaabt.com/