Ora DeKornfeld is an Emmy-award winning journalist, filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles and Mexico City. Through verite storytelling, she seeks to shed light on the human condition behind our world’s most divisive political issues. DeKornfeld directed, produced, filmed and edited the award-winning, Emmy-nominated short, USA vs. Scott (Tribeca 2020, The New Yorker). Other independent work has received multiple awards from Picture of the Year International, including first place for Feature Multimedia, the White House News Photographers Association's Student Video Photographer of the Year, The Webby Awards, SXSW Film Festival and she has been listed on PDN’s 20 Emerging Artists to Watch in Film and Video. Her work has been showcased in the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, CNN, Netflix, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Vox's Explained on Netflix, among others. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times. Her work there has been nominated for four News and Documentary Emmys. In 2019, she won in the "Outstanding Editing: News" category. She was an integral part of the creative team both as a cinematographer and editor on the feature documentary film Mija, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022 and will be released on Disney Plus in the fall.