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[about the filmmaker]
Fernanda Rossi has been successful in taking fascinating-but-untapped topics and turning them into acclaimed independent ventures. "Inventing a Girl: An Experience in Homeschooling" is Ms. Rossi's first long-format documentary and the first in the United States to deal with this subject.
"Inventing a Girl" premiered in June 2000 at the Contemporary Issues Film Festival. It won the Womenıs Eye Award at the Riverrun Intarnational Film Festival in North Carolina and it screened in New York City in the Fall of 2001.
She also won first prize from the Ibero-American Congress for writing, producing, and directing "On The Edge," a documentary dealing with tourism for the blind.
Aside from her independent projects, she has worked as an editor for eight years, alternating between the independent and network world, from HBO to The Merrow Report on PBS and Nickelodeon's popular series Kablam.
Currently, she is in pre-production for her own next documentary Alice in Wondertime and working on the final draft of her fiction script.
She hosts the bimonthly Documentary Dialogues at AIVF. She is also a member on the Board of Directors of CineWomen New York, a member-run non-profit organization that supports women filmmakers.
Fernanda
Rossi has a Master of Arts in Film Production from the University
of Buenos Aires.