Tracey Anarella (born January 28, 1963) is an American

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

maker.

Career

Anarella made her debut as the director of ''Jesse and the Fountain of Youth'' (2013), an 11-minute documentary about a

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subway busker. The movie won the "Emerging Artists Award" at the McMinnville Short Film Festival (2013), "Best Short Film" at the

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(2014) and "Best Documentary" at the Laughlin International Film Festival (2014). In 2014 Anarella shot a 12-minute documentary ''Brooklyn United'' about the Brooklyn United Marching Band. The movie received three nominations at the

in 2015 and was featured in the Cannes Short Corner marketplace at the

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and at

Jecheon International Music & Film Festival Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (제천국제음악영화제, JIMFF) strives to be both a celebration of film set in Jecheon City and music for all generations and musical tastes. Jecheon is located in Chungcheongbuk province in cen ...

(

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). She continued with a 10-minute documentary ''Beautiful Lies'' (2016) about her father, 87 year-old artist George Williams, who suffers from

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and talks about his life through his

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named Charles. It premiered at 2016

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and later was screened at Laughlin International Film Festival (2016). SENE Film, Art and Music Festival (2017) and YoFiFest (2017). In 2017, Anarella made ''Not Black Enough'', her first full-length documentary featuring

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and

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. It was featured at WOW Middle Eastern Film Festival (

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), The Ethnografilm Festival (

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), at

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, Austin Revolution Film Festival, Laughlin International Film Festival, Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, Queens World Film Festival, SENE Film, Art and Music Festival and at International Black Film Festival, Charlotte Black Film Festival, 19th San Francisco Black Film Festival and African Diaspora Film Festival. In 2017, Anarella started to film ''Livingston Taylor: Life Is Good'', a documentary about American folk musician

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. The movie was partially crowdfunded at Indiegogo.

Awards and nominations

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Anarella, Tracey 1963 births Living people American documentary filmmakers Cornell University alumni Gabelli School of Business alumni Filmmakers from Cleveland