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Marnie Ellen Hertzler is a filmmaker from the Southern United States, currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work spans lens-based media, digital systems, and isolated landscapes, exploring the intersection of historical and speculative narratives to examine deep time, the environment, and the relationships between humans and the more-than-human world.

Her debut feature film, Crestone, premiered at True/False in 2020 and was subsequently showcased at SXSW, CPH:DOX, BAM NYC, and numerous national and international festivals, including The Bellwether Series, Boiler Room, Dock Yard, Maryland Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, American Film Festival, and Oak Cliff Film Festival. Crestone was released digitally and on Blu-ray in February 2021 by Utopia Distribution, with its original score by Animal Collective released digitally and on vinyl in April 2021 by Domino Records.

Marnie’s award-winning short films, including Dirt Daughter, Hi I Need To Be Loved, and Growing Girl, scored by Dan Deacon, have been featured at prestigious festivals such as Locarno and IFFRotterdam, as well as on The Criterion Channel and at MoMA, NYC.

In 2018, she was recognized as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her work has garnered numerous accolades, including a Creative Capital Award and fellowships from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, IFP Narrative Lab, Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell, and the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund. She is also a Rubys Artist Awardee and a Rooftop Film Fund Fellow.

Marnie is currently in post-production on a feature documentary about the Chesapeake Bay, exploring how we imagine possible futures, and in production on a Creative Capital-funded sci-fi film in collaboration with a humanoid embodied A.I.

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