Kelly Duane De La Vega’s (she/her) award-winning documentaries have screened at film festivals, in theaters, and on broadcast worldwide, including on PBS and Netflix. Kelly’s work has received the WGA’s Best Documentary Screenplay Award, the Gotham Award for Best Documentary, and multiple Emmy nominations. Her 2016 film The Return was a Peabody Award finalist and an Emmy nominee; the film won the Tribeca Audience Award for Best Documentary, opened POV’s season, and was presented on Capitol Hill and in prisons across the country. Her 2019 film The Two Killings of Sam Cooke was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary and multiple National Emmy awards. Her 2022 film In the Bones screened at festivals globally, including the Cinematheque in Paris. Kelly’s 2011 feature, Better This World, won Best Documentary Feature at SFFILM, received an IDA Creative Achievement Award, and was selected for MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight. In partnership with The New York Times, Mother Jones, and The Nation, she also directed and produced a multimedia project, Project Turnout, which explored changing election laws and their impact. Kelly has produced short-format work for IFC and Discovery, among others; has guest lectured at several universities and taught at UC Berkeley; and has served on multiple documentary juries, including the Independent Spirit Awards. She is a member of the Academy.