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Ornella Mutoni is a documentary director and producer with over eight years’ experience working across cinematic documentaries and prime-time broadcast television with award-winning international teams. 

Her directorial debut short, The Things We Don’t Say, premiered at Aesthetica Short Film Festival and went on to screen at New York African Film Festival and Palm Springs International ShortFest, and was distributed by The Guardian. The film earned her a nomination for the Gaby Rado Award for Best New Journalist at the 2025 Amnesty Media Awards.

Ornella has also produced the short documentary Rendered in Light, directed by Maria Marrone, premiering at Palinale Festival in 2026, and assistant produced the feature documentary TUTU, directed by Sam Pollard, premiering at Berlinale 2026 and distributed by Universal.

She is currently developing the feature documentary The Silence We Carry, produced by Counterpoints Productions and Story Compound, which has received support from the Doc Society RAD Fund.