Big Men

Rachel produced and directed the feature-length documentary OUR BRAND IS CRISIS, filming for three years on two continents. Winner of the International Documentary Association’s Best Feature Documentary Award and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, it was named the #3 movie of 2006 by New York Magazine, and appeared on several other “Best of 2006” lists, including those of the New York Times and the LA Weekly. The film aired internationally on the BBC, HBO Latin America, ARTE, VPRO, and the CBC among others and was televised in the United States on The Sundance Channel. OUR BRAND IS CRISIS also screened at multiple festivals worldwide including SXSW, the 34th New Directors/ New Film Series presented by New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, where Rachel was the winner of the Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award. Currently George Clooney’s company, Smokehouse, plans to remake OUR BRAND IS CRISIS as a fiction feature. Rachel’s other credits include associate producer for the feature documentary WELL FOUNDED FEAR, producer/ director/ cinematographer for PAGEANT PERFECT, and associate producer of PEOPLE LIKE US: SOCIAL CLASS IN AMERICA. She has managed shoots across America, worked on films in Cuba and France, and directed casting for reality-based commercials.