Naomi Uman
Naomi Uman earned her undergrad degree at Columbia University. Earned her MFA at Cal Arts. Before turning to filmmaking she was a private chef for Malcolm Forbes, Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt. She won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. While living and making films in the Ukraine in 2008, she also toured the country in a van with a projector to set up impromptu local screenings in bars, basements and other out-of-the-way places.
Her work has been screened at Sundance, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York International Film Festival, and many others, as well as The Guggenheim and The Smithsonian.
Removed
1999 – 7 minutes – Color – Sound