2023Nominee
Best Picture
Portraits
Desirée Tolchin
Director · Producer
Biography
Desirée is a Brooklyn based filmmaker. Her work explores the cyclical banality of the human condition through fictional and non-fictional lenses. Her body of work is a collection of intimate experiences portrayed through slow cinema, distant memories, and wandering narratives. The result being, an honest portrayal of the struggles within the fleeting present moments of the everyday. Her work has screened at Sydney Women's International Film Festival, Mystic Film Festival, Cayuga Film Festival, and Still Voices Film Festival.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2024Nominee
Career Highlight
Living Reality
Nominee
Best Director
To Wade or Row
Career Highlights
2023Highlight
Career Highlight
Visions of Waves
2026Highlight
Best Picture
The Birds Tell Me All There Is To Know
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Portraits