Davina Pardo is a Peabody and Emmy-award winning filmmaker who most recently directed and produced, with Leah Wolchok, the Imagine/Prime Video documentary JUDY BLUME FOREVER, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2023.

Her award-winning documentary shorts exploring the intersections of narrative, place, and memory (116 CAMERAS, MINKA, YESTERDAY IN RWANDA, BIRDLINGS TWO) have screened at festivals worldwide, including Toronto International Film Festival, Tribeca, True/False, DOC NYC, Hot Docs, Full Frame, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Aspen Shortsfest, Palm Springs ShortFest, and AFIDOCS. 116 CAMERAS was broadcast on PBS, featured as a New York Times Op-Doc, and shortlisted for the Academy Awards.

As a producer, her work includes VERY SEMI-SERIOUS, a feature-length HBO documentary about New Yorker cartoonists directed by Leah Wolchok, and QUEEN OF HEARTS: AUDREY FLACK, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Deborah Shaffer.

Her films have been supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund, Tribeca Film Institute, IFP's Documentary Lab and Independent Film Week, Catapult Film Fund, and New York State Council on the Arts.

Davina previously worked as assistant to David Cronenberg and associate produced the Academy Award-winning documentary FREEHELD. Born and raised in Canada, she lives and works in New York City.

Contact: davina at birdlings.com