Aurora Brachman is an Emmy Award-winning documentary director, producer, and cinematographer. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Through patient and poetic storytelling, her films bear witness to intimate moments of self-discovery. Her most recent film, HOLD ME CLOSE, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Her short documentaries, including Joychild, Still Waters, Club Quarantine, and The Gallery That Destroys All Shame, have been acquired by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and POV; have been shortlisted for an IDA Award; selected for Vimeo Staff Picks; exhibited at the MoMA, and screened at 50+ film festivals including Sundance, True/False, Hot Docs, BlackStar, and SFFILM. She co-produced Apple TV+’s Girls State (Sundance 2024), associate-produced A24’s Stephen Curry: Underrated(Sundance 2023); and assisted on the critically acclaimed Showtime docuseries Couples Therapy.