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.
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 Trials of Alien Life (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.
Contact.
For booking and all inquiries, please contact:
HANNAH SWAYZE
info@atariapictures.com
LA | NYC | FLORENCE
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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
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McCann, Ogilvy, RAPP, RCA, GameSeven, Vayner Media, Complex Networks, Anomaly, MediaMonks, Industrial Color, Iconoclast, iCrossing, KWG, Jellywolf, Alias, Pixel.
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Marvel, Spectrum, Ford, Toyota, Samsung, Meta, Verizon, Gushers, SIMI Wines, Crown Royal, NFL, Microsoft, Super73, XBOX, Maybelline, UGG, Heron Preston, Tia Adeola, Hublot.
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Film / TV: Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Alexander J. Farrell, Garrett Wareing, Mike Fontaine, Cynthia Madansky, Orian Barki, dayday.
Commercial: Nina Meredith, dayday, Gianluigi Carella, Elle Brooks-Tao, the TAOs, Jordan Hall, Clayton Vila, Savannah O'Leary, Luka Wilson, Victoria Rivera, Julian Muller.
News.
Variety — “Fantasia Film Festival Lineup”
Variety — “Palm Springs International ShortFest Lineup”
Variety — “Bentonville Film Festival Lineup”
The Hollywood Reporter — “Hari Nef Joins Indie Drama Simchas and Sorrows”
Nowness Features Firelei Báez: An Open Horizon
PAPER Magazine: Tia Adeola’s Renaissance Fashion Films Paints Black Women as Modern Marie Antionettes
VOGUE: Watch Tia Adeola’s New Fashion Film ‘Le Noir Est Beau’
Screenwriting.
Semifinalist for Blueprint at Golden Script Competition (2022)
Quarterfinalist for Blueprint at HollyShorts Screenplay Competition (2022)
Quarterfinalist for Blueprint at PlotPoint (2022)
Quarterfinalist for Vampires Welcome at Scriptation Showcase (2022)