Ora DeKornfeld is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor. Her work has been showcased in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, as well as on CNN, Netflix, and National Geographic. She directed, produced, filmed, and edited the Emmy-nominated short USA V SCOTT, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2020 and was acquired by The New Yorker. She directed, shot, wrote, and edited a New York Times Opinion video, THIS IS WHAT A POST- ROE ABORTION LOOKS LIKE, which was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 2023. Other independent work has received awards from Picture of the Year International, The Webby Awards, and SXSW Film Festival. She directed several episodes of Vox’s original Netflix documentary series EXPLAINED, and was cinematographer and editor on the feature documentary film MIJA, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022. MIJA was acquired by Disney+ and earned an IDA Award and Independent Spirit Award nominations. Ora recently was part of the editing team of Elizabeth Lo’s MISTRESS DISPELLER (Anonymous Content / Impact Partners).
She is currently in development of a feature film about fixers in the journalism and doc space.