Rebecca Cammisa (born 9 July 1966) is an American documentary filmmaker two-times Oscar nominated, Emmy award winner, and founder of Documentress Films.
In addition, in 2006 the Museum of Modern Art Film Library acquired Sister Helen for its permanent collection.
The Traverse City Film Festival awarded Which Way Home its Special Jury Prize for Human Rights.
When it aired in August of that year on HBO's Documentary Summer series, it reached over 3.5 million viewers.
[3][4] Cammisa was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Filmmaking, and in 2011, she directed and produced the HBO documentary God Is the Bigger Elvis, which received an Oscar Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short Subject on January 24, 2012.