MARISA WOO GRATTAN

Producer, Director, Cinematographer

Marisa Woo Grattan is a Chinese American documentary filmmaker and visual storyteller based in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Her work brings a personal, place-based lens to stories of migration, intergenerational memory, and cross-cultural belonging. Marisa’s Emmy-nominated films have screened nationally on PBS and in international spaces, including at the United Nations General Assembly Hall.

She previously led the global video portfolio at UN Women, directing documentary and advocacy films that centered the rights of women and girls around the world. Marisa holds an MA in International Affairs from The New School for Public Engagement and a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

She is a 2025 BendFilm: Basecamp Fellow, a 2026 Oregon Humanities Community Storytelling Fellow. She is currently directing Ho’oka’awale /疏离 (shūlí), a short documentary and the recipient of Kartemquin Films' 2026-2027 Zhao-Chen Family AAPI Voices Fund.