Nara Garber

Position(s):

Film Director

Nara Garber is a New York-based filmmaker who divides her time between writing, directing, shooting, and editing while remaining pig-headedly committed to the notion that film can bring about positive change.  As a cinematographer, Nara has dragged camera gear across five continents in search of the perfect shot, and recent projects have taken her to Iraq (Striking a Chord, produced in associations with the We Are Family Foundation and due out in 2010), Ethiopia (Making the Crooked Straight, HBO premiere in spring, 2010), and Alaska (About Face, festival premiere at Hot Docs in 2009; The Quiet War, Best Documentary, Reel Women Film Festival, 2007). Nara currently directs, shoots and produces educational outreach documentaries for Carnegie Hall, and she is the Co-Director and DP of Flat Daddy, a feature-length documentary that looks at how military families cope with the strains of deployment (to be completed in fall, 2010;  flatdaddydocumentary.com).  Before attending graduate school for film at Columbia in the late 90's, Nara worked as a teacher and high school counselor. She is delighted to join the 3DD team for this year's summit since "the movement" integrates her most passionate beliefs about media and education.