Gemma Doll-Grossman
cinematographer
SELECTED WORK
NARRATIVE
still from film - forthcoming

reference image by Saul Leiter / production stills forthcoming
The Low End Theory
feature (post-production)
Raquel, an aspiring hip-hop beats producer, moonlights as a drug money launderer, and ends up stealing from her crime-lord boss to pay off debts owed by the woman with whom she is having an obsessive affair.
Directed by Francisco Ordoñez
Written by Sofia Yepes & Francisco Ordoñez
Produced by Sofia Yepes & Daniel Ragussis
An Atomic Features Production
Recipient of Panavision's New Filmmakers Program grant

reference image by Saul Leiter / production stills forthcoming

BURY ME WHEN I'M DEAD
feature (post-production)
After failing to keep his wife's dying wish, a series of tragic events leads Henry to believe she's returned to get revenge.
Written and directed by Seabold Krebs
Produced by Amanda Freedman, Nick Santos, Plenty Good Films


BARE
feature (post-production)
In a Dogma 95-inspired divorce horror (shot on DV), a literary couple living in the woods confronts their demons after the death of their children.
Written and directed by Matt Hardy
Produced by Matt Hardy, Nikolas Friehs


SCOTTY'S VAG
short
In a psycho-sexual, coming-of-age drama, Scotty, a college freshman, goes to the limits of her bodily comforts to impress the older girl she wants as her sorority big.
Written and directed by Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz
Produced by Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz, Cailin Lobb-Rabe, Gia Rigoli, Vero Kompalic

Festival: 2023 SXSW Film Festival

LUNA PIENA (FULL MOON)
short
A haunting fever dream, “LUNA PIENA” is a portrait of a starlet grappling with her newfound isolation in a seaside villa in Calabria.
Written and directed by Isabella Torre
Produced by StayBlack
Festival: 2021 Venice International Film Festival (Critics’ Week)


EXPECTANT
short
Ben, a soon-to-be father, is forced to confront his fears of raising a child in a dying world.
Directed by Hannah Bang
Produced by Jera Wang, Trent Nakamura
Executive Produced by Danni Xin, Film Independent (Project Involve)
Recipient of Panavision's New Filmmakers Program grant
Festival: 2023 BiFan Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival


IN SYNC
short
May is 15 years old and horny. “IN SYNC” explores a frustrated mother-daughter relationship and teenage sexuality.
Written and directed by Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz
Produced by Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz, Cailin Lobb-Rabe, Kristen Politis
Festival: 2021 Maryland International Film Festival

TAMPOO
short
Visceral and hilarious, “TAMPOO” features a young woman on a hot date who is having the most uncomfortable period of her life.
Directed by Zara Burdett
Produced by Amanda Freedman
Festival: 2021 Cucalorus Film Festival

SQUAWK
short
Cora waits in an LA salon for her monthly bikini wax. Tackling the mantra “beauty is pain”, the film links Cora’s wax to a chicken getting plucked.
Directed by Juan Pablo Arias-Muñoz
Produced by Sydney Lowe, Paul Fishback
Festival: 2021 Cucalorus Film Festival
documentary
Inferno rosso: Joe D'Amato sulla via dell’eccesso
documentary feature
A portrait of director Joe D’Amato - genius of horror, master of eroticism, king of Italian porn - had 3 stylistic principles: amaze, shock, scandalize.
Written and directed by Manlio Gomarasca, Massimiliano Zanin
Produced by Wave Cinema
Festival: 2021 Venice International Film Festival
MARIANNE
documentary short
In 2016, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist Marianne Wiggins suffered a sudden stroke.Her daughter, Lara Porzak, a photographer helped Marianne complete her latest novel “Properties of Thirst”.
Directed by Rebecca Ressler
Written and produced by Rebecca Ressler, Lara Porzak
Festival: 2022 Telluride Film Festival