Marcella Steingart
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Marcella Garcia Steingart is a Brooklyn based, Emmy-award winning producer, writer, and director with over 20 years of experience and a boundless curiosity for exploring the human condition through character driven, rich stories and inventive techniques in service of those stories. Most recently, she produced the Emmy-nominated documentary Judy Blume Forever, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Before that, she won an Emmy for Who Are You, Charlie Brown? which she co-wrote and produced.
Marcella began her career writing fiction screenplays and treatments. She brought her expertise of narrative structure and dramatic storytelling to the documentary world, where she now crafts award-winning series, features, shorts and branded content for clients like Amazon Studios, Apple TV+, Netflix, Showtime, Sundance TV, BBC, CNN, Discovery, PBS, OWN, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, IBM, Google, and GAP.
Some of this work includes: CNN’s long-running series, Death Row Stories, the Netflix series, Abstract: The Art of Design, which had an episode premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Darknet, a Showtime series about the internet underworld, The System with Joe Berlinger, which exposed flaws in the justice system, Prodigies, a YouTube show about gifted children which won IAWTV’s best documentary series award, the NAACP Image Award-winning Oprah's Master Class, Cannes Gold Lion recipient, What is Watson?, a collection of short films chronicling the historic Jeopardy! match between IBM’s Watson and the world’s best players, Sundance TV’s popular series, Iconoclasts, and the documentary feature, Beauty Academy of Kabul.
During her career, Marcella has interviewed everyone from celebrated artists, authors, child prodigies, scientists, military leaders, politicians, rock stars, celebrities, law enforcement, ex-offenders, and victims of violence. Her work has taken her to the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, Afghanistan, Ghana, Guatemala, and cities all over the United States -- from Brooklyn, NY to Los Angeles, CA and nearly everywhere in between.
Although Marcella works primarily in non-fiction, she maintains a passion for fiction and believes the two are inexorably linked. Her first screenplay, Larvae, which she co-wrote, was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan grant, and placed as a finalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship. Marcella continues to write screenplays, and recently finished a short script that she hopes to direct.
Marcella is a member of NYWIFT, DGA and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She graduated with high honors from Colgate University and received her MFA from NYU Tisch School of Film and Television, where she was the recipient of the Ang Lee Scholarship.