Marnie Ellen's profile

Marnie Ellen Hertzler is a filmmaker living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Her films often explore a multi-media approach to film presentation and distribution and has utilized live performance and installation to accompany her work. 

Her first feature film, CRESTONE, is a hybrid-documentary set in a dystopian future where the last people alive are a group of SoundCloud rappers. CRESTONE premiered at True/False in 2020, and went on to play at SXSW, CPH:DOX, and many national and international programs and film festivals, including The Bellwether Series, Boiler Room, Dock Yard, Maryland Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, American Film Festival, Oak Cliff Film Festival, and more. CRESTONE was released digitally and on BlueRay in February of 2021 by Utopia Distribution. The original score composed by Animal Collective was released digitally and on vinyl in April 2021 by Domino Records.

Her previous award winning short films (DIRT DAUGHTER, HI I NEED TO BE LOVED, and GROWING GIRL) have screened at renowned film festivals such as Locarno, and IFFRotterdam, and have been programmed on The Criterion Channel, and in MoMA. 

In 2018 Marnie was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She is a Creative Capital fellow, Bemis fellow, Vermont studio center fellow, MacDowell fellow, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund and IFP Narrative Lab Fellow, and Rubys Artist Grantee. Influenced by her background in both psychology and fine arts, she creates films that act as cinematic platforms for the exploration of interpersonal relationships, the technology that defines us, and the inevitable end of it all. Using techniques from documentary filmmaking and various realisms across artistic fields, she approaches her projects experimentally and collaboratively allowing the process itself shapes the story. 

She is currently in production on her second feature film ETERNITY ONE, a feature documentary about the ways we imagine possible futures and the Chesapeake Bay. 

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