Nora Poggi is a TEDx speaker and has been featured in Inc, Forbes, Fast Company, Glamour, Huffington Post among others. She is a French journalist, documentary filmmaker, writer, and impact producer. She directed and produced alongside Insiyah Saeed the award-winning feature documentary on women tech entrepreneurs, She Started It. She interviewed key players in Silicon Valley for four years for publications including Examiner.com & Usine Nouvelle.
Nora is the producer and host of the acclaimed podcast “Creative Distribution 101” interviewing experts and filmmakers on alternative ways to get films made and distributed.
Since running the impact campaign for She Started It with over 400 screenings worldwide, Nora has been freelancing as an Impact Producer to use films to change the world. Projects include HBO’s Emmy-nominated film The Tale, the award-winning documentary on women chefs A Fine Line, Tribeca Gucci grant recipient “A Place of Absence”, MTV Documentary Films’ Emmy-winning documentary Art & Krimes by Krimes on formerly incarcerated artists, and the animated feature My Love Affair With Marriage on domestic violence and gender norms.
Nora has given masterclasses and workshops on impact & distribution for Docs By The Sea, the St. John's International Women's Film Festival, Filmshop in New York, and more. She sits on the NYC Advisory Board for the nonprofit Global Girl Media and writes about filmmaking, entrepreneurship, and activism on her personal blog, Nora’s Lens.
To contact Nora drop her a line at nora.poggi@gmail.com or on social media @norapoggi
Services
Impact Campaign Strategy & Implementation, Creative Distribution for independent films
Writing & Producing (podcasts, documentaries, articles)
Consulting on documentary filmmaking and entrepreneurship
Speaking
Teaching