Vanessa with Lino Olopai, Saipan, CNMI (March 2002)

Vanessa Warheit is an American documentary filmmaker living in Vancouver, British Columbia. She produced, directed, and edited Constructing Experience: The Many Lives of Treasure Island (1999), a documentary about the history of a man-made island, which aired in the Bay Area on PBS and NBC. Other credits include Associate Producer for the award-winning ITVS documentary Great Wall Across the Yangtze, which aired nationally on PBS in 2000, and Additional Cinematography for Daddy and Papa (2002), Johnny Symons' award-winning documentary about gay fathers in America. Vanessa also worked with Telling Pictures on Paragraph 175 (1999), a feature-length HBO/Channel 4 documentary which won top awards at festivals internationally, including the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals.

Vanessa has lectured at UC Berkeley on issues of authenticity and documentary film production, and she was producer and director of a series of educational documentaries for the online learning company, Ninth House Network. Since 1999 she has worked as a freelance editor, independent producer, post-production supervisor, and cinematographer.

She received her Master's degree in Documentary Film and Video Production from Stanford University , and she holds a degree with honors from Bryn Mawr College in Comparative Language and Literature. She speaks several languages, and has traveled extensively throughout the U.S., Central America, Europe, and Micronesia. Prior to her work in film and video, Ms. Warheit worked in marketing communications for seven years, and founded Left/Right Studio, an award-winning communications design firm in San Francisco.

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