Marilyn Ness
Personal Info
Known for
Production
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Marilyn Ness
Biography
Marilyn Ness is a two-time Emmy, Peabody, and DuPont Award-winning filmmaker, working as a producer and a director. Her most recent film, Cameraperson (dir. Kirsten Johnson) premiered at Sundance 2016, was released by the Criterion Collection, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Awards. Marilyn produced Trapped (dir. Dawn Porter) which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, received the Jury Prize for Social Impact Filmmaking and screened nationally on PBS. She also produced Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman's feature documentary E-TEAM, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2014 and was bought by Netflix Original, as well as Johanna Hamilton's feature documentary 1971 which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on Independent Lens in 2015. She directed the documentary feature film Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale that broadcast nationally on PBS in 2011.
Acting
(2014)
1971
as Citizens' Commission
Crew
(2025)
Holding Liat
Consulting Producer
(2024)
The Easy Kind
Executive Producer
(2023)
Camp Courage
Producer
(2020)
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Producer
(2020)
Becoming
Producer
(2018)
Charm City
Director, Producer
(2016)
Cameraperson
Producer
(2016)
Trapped
Producer
(2015)
The Above
Producer
(2014)
E-Team
Producer
(2014)
1971
Producer
(2012)
The Honor Code
Producer
(2010)
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale
Writer, Director, Producer
(1999)
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Associate Producer