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Bella Graves

Bella Graves

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Biography

Bella Graves is a New York-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer with her work showcased at festivals such as Tribeca, St. Louis, and Sundance. Bella’s heartbeat is in vérité filming and brings a sensitivity to character-driven projects. During the Gotham Week Project Market she secured a partnership with Field of Vision on her debut feature film A LITTLE BIT ABOUT REVENGE and the project is targeting spring 2026 festivals.

Known For

Hillary
5.9

A portrait of a public woman, interweaving moments from never-before-seen 2016 campaign footage with biographical chapters of Hillary Rodham Clinton's life. Featuring exclusive interviews with Hillary herself, Bill Clinton, friends, and journalists, an examination of how she became simultaneously one of the most admired and vilified women in the world.

Hillary

2020
My Mom Jayne
8.0

Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayne Mansfield, an extraordinary and complex woman.

My Mom Jayne

2025
American Godfathers: The Five Families
8.4

Explore five powerful New York Mafia families, who ran organized crime in America.

American Godfathers: The Five Families

2024
I'm Your Venus
6.8

A documentary following the unsolved murder of Venus Xtravaganza, star of the legendary film "Paris Is Burning," as Venus' two families — biological and ballroom — come together to seek answers and celebrate her legacy.

I'm Your Venus

2024
Roxana
N/A

Roxana follows a young mother’s return to the juvenile detention center she was once incarcerated in, now as a trained somatic therapist. Through an intimate look into the lives of incarcerated youth, we will see the consequences of childhood trauma.

Roxana

2018
Bisbee '17
6.9

It’s 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining town just miles from the Mexican border. The town’s close-knit community prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bisbee’s darkest hour: the infamous Bisbee Deportation of 1917, during which 1,200 striking miners were violently taken from their homes, banished to the middle of the desert, and left to die. Townspeople confront this violent, misunderstood past by staging dramatic recreations of the escalating strike. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective versions of the story and “directed,” in a sense, by residents with conflicting views of the event. Deeply personal segments torn from family history build toward a massive restaging of the deportation itself on the exact day of its 100th anniversary.

Bisbee '17

2018
Pass Time
N/A

Pass Time explores the passive absorption of breaking news and political discourse during one of the most charged elections in American history. How did we arrive at this moment, where truth and narrative blur? What forces have shaped our perceptions, and what consequences lie in wait as we drift through an ever-shifting landscape of information? Where are we headed, and can we even see it coming?

Pass Time

2026