NEWS:
Join us for our next FREELANCER's HAPPY HOUR:
the last week of every month (specific dates TBA)
6:30pm
906 Washington Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Featured Member:
Marissa Aroy
Producer/Director/Camera
The Media Factory
Berkeley, California
Marissa Aroy is currently producing the documentary, “Sikhs in America,” for the PBS station, KVIE. Earlier this year she produced “Little Manila: Filipinos in California’s Heartland.” for the same station. On national television, “Sounds of Hope,” for which she was co-producer, was shown on Frontline World, also on PBS. Prior to those projects Aroy produced and did camera work for “Uneasy Peace,” about Northern Ireland’s peace process for Frontline World. She was post-production supervisor for the 2006 Oscar-nominated documentary short, “Mushroom Club,” and worked as associate producer for three years on the HBO America Undercover Series documentary, “Rehab,”which won the Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award for journalism. In the Philippines she was a segment producer for a local environmental television show and in the Dominican Republic she produced a short documentary about the effects of HIV and AIDS. Her film, Step Show: Portrait of a Black Fraternity screened at various film festivals including the New York International Film and Video Festival, The Black Hollywood Film Festival, Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago, and the Film Arts Festival in San Francisco.
Aroy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College and a Masters degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley. She was the recipient of the Yoshiko Uchida Asian American Writers Fellowship and is involved in the Bay Area Asian American arts scene, working mostly with Bindlestiff Studio. She is a producer of the TV sitcom pilot, Gun-powder which featured performers from Bindlestiff Studio. She is working on a project about Filipino Farmworkers and their role in helping create the United Farm Workers for which she recently received a development grant from the Independent Television Services. When she’s not making or watching movies, she’s teaching digital filmmaking at Berkeley City College.