PILar timpane
Writer, Director, Producer
Pilar Timpane is a filmmaker and producer based in Durham, NC and New York City. Her work has focused on women's stories, immigration, and religious communities with the aim of using storytelling for social change. She is a 2022 ITVS/NEH Humanities Documentary Development Fellow and Logan Nonfiction Program Fellow. She recently co-directed the short documentary MAKING WAVES (2022). Her co-directed short SANTUARIO (2019, PBS/ReelSouth & AlJazeera Witness) was the winner of the Best Documentary Short Jury Prize at New Orleans Film Festival 2018, the Crested Butte ActNow Award, and the IF/Then Shorts American South Pitch and was shown at festivals around the country. She is an alumna of the Women in Film LA, Southern Documentary Fund, Tribeca Film Institute, Working Films, and a fellow of the New Orleans Film Society Southern Producers Lab. Credits include Atlantic Selects, Vox/Netflix "Explained", and independent films. She is directing her first feature film.