HANNAH SWAYZE IS A FILM PRODUCER, WRITER & DIRECTOR FROM LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WITH A BACKGROUND AS A PERFORMING CLASSICAL MUSICIAN.

She is a creative problem solver with a soft spot for logistical nightmares. Her favorite films include Happy Together (W. Kar-wai), Blow Out (B. De Palma) and Red Road (A. Arnold).

Narrative & documentary works she’s produced have premiered at festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Fantasia, Berlinale INVR Space, Sitges, Cinequest, Bentonville, Maryland FF, Miami FF, as well as the Eye Museum of Cinema in Amsterdam.

She produced short film Blue, directed by dayday, which debuted as part of Hulu’s anthology documentary series Your Attention Please, and was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Feature films include What Remains of Us (2024), Simchas and Sorrows (2022), Caverna (2023), and upcoming Underwood, It Was You, Index: Trace, Peanut Butter, Maybe Next Life, Untitled, and Maggot Brain (2025). She’s produced for AMC, Hulu and TIME Studios and is the founder of ATARIA, a production studio focusing on films and documentaries. She served as the production supervisor for the TIME Magazine ‘100 Women’ Documentary produced by Alma Har’el.

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For booking and all inquiries, please contact:

HANNAH SWAYZE

info@atariapictures.com

LA | NYC | FLORENCE

    • 2025 | Sundance Film Festival, Sonoma Film Festival, Aspen Shortfest, Milwaukee Film Festival, AfterImage Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival

    • 2024 | Fantasia Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, HollyShorts, LA Shorts, Palm Springs ShortFest

    • 2022 | Telluride Film Festival, Miami Film Festival Honorable Mention: University of Miami Short Documentary Film Award, Panic Fest Winner - “Best Short”, Screamfest, Bentonville Film Festival,  Cinequest, Florida Film Festival, SF Jewish Film Festival, Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno, Montecatini International Film Festival

    • 2021 | Sundance co//ab, Dances With Films, AFMX Film Festival Winner “Best Director - Documentary Short”, 42 CineFestival San Antonio, DC Shorts International Film Festival, DART Barcelona

    • 2020 | IndieMemphis, London Short Film Festival, Moonroom Midnight Short Fest, LA Pacific Asian American Film Festival

    • 2019 |  Clermont-Ferrand Festival du Court Métrage, Berlinale INVR Space, Maryland Film Festival, Long Distance Film Festival – Jury Prize, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Bushwick Film Festival, Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival, New Filmmakers NYC, Lamezia Film Festival Winner “Best Documentary”, Intimalente/Intimatelens Festival of Visual Ethnography, Rassegna Doc Fest, Roma Cinema Doc, Sitges, Nightmares Fest, ScreamFest

  • McCann, Ogilvy, RAPP, RCA, VML, VML Medical, GameSeven, VaynerMedia, PG One, Complex Networks, Anomaly, MediaMonks, Industrial Color, Iconoclast, iCrossing, KWG, Alias, Pixel.

  • Marvel, Spectrum, Lexus, Ford, Toyota, Samsung, Meta, Verizon, Gushers, SIMI Wines, Crown Royal, NFL, AdCouncil, Microsoft, Super73, XBOX, Maybelline, UGG, Heron Preston, Tia Adeola, Hublot, Nestle, P&G: Dawn, Cascade.

  • Film / TV: Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Alexander J. Farrell, Garrett Wareing, Mike Fontaine, Cynthia Madansky, Orian Barki, dayday.

    Commercial: Nina Meredith, dayday, Gianluigi Carella, Anaïs La Rocca, Elle Brooks-Tao, the TAOs, Jordan Hall, Clayton Vila, Savannah O'Leary, Luka Wilson, Victoria Rivera, Julian Muller.

 

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