
From photography to writing to documentary film and video production, Eliza Hemenway is passionate about creative nonfiction storytelling. With over twenty years of experience in media making, her goal is to tell stories that inspire hope and create positive social change.
Eliza formally studied still photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with Tufts University, and earned her M.A. in media studies from New College of California, with an emphasis in documentary film. She founded and directed the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, was an independent-film reviewer for NPR's KRCB-FM, and has worked professionally creating photography and video content for organizations such as the Redwood Empire Food Bank, City of Santa Rosa, Sonoma State University, Arnold Arboretum, and the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Eliza's work has been widely exhibited in galleries, film festivals and venues including AmDocs, Winnipeg Real to Reel Film Festival, Boden International Film Festival, LaborFest, Odyssey, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco Frozen Film Festival, Roxie Film Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, Academy of Art College, the San Francisco Public Library, and more.
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Katherine Coviello holds a fashion design certificate from Santa Rosa Junior College and is currently studying design and communications at UC Davis. She helped design, edit, and market Paris in Oakland, designed and built the website for Hemenway Productions, and interned at Little Four in Sebastopol, an artisan boutique where she worked on production of original clothing designs. She currently oversees the industrial sewing room at UC Davis, and is working as a graphic designer for Aria communications. Katherine served as Associate Producer on the documentary film, The Way to Hawassa, including contributing cinematography, still photography, graphic design, and her editorial eye to the project.