DIRECTORS

Deborah Correa is Colombian-American producer and director who was chosen for the prestigious AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Her work spans television, film and podcasts with both narrative and documentary projects. Her credits include PBS, History Channel, Spotify, Travel Channel, Paramount+, Brave New Films and Hulu. While working on Peter Berg's Film 45/History Channel series, The Warfighters, Deborah worked with over 90 U.S. Spec-Ops Veterans who were both in front of and behind the camera. She continues to work with veterans in telling their stories. She recently directed Army Ranger veteran Josh Kelly in Re/Collection, which premiered at the Sun Valley Film Festival. Deborah recently completed production on a short documentary with industry veteran and social justice filmmaker Robert Greenwald and two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali. Her earliest work documented the return of a displaced village because of the violent narco-wars in her father's homeland of Colombia. While filming there, she revisited her childhood memories of this misunderstood and magical country. That experience continues to shape her direction in her work. Deborah recently completed production on her feature debut. Described as, “a soaring achievement,” (Film Threat) The War Between tells the story of two enemy soldiers who must unite to survive the Arizona desert. J Paul Johnson from Film Obsessive observes, “It’s perhaps unlikely territory for any first-time feature director and for female directors more broadly, to take on the Western and war film, two film genres long held dominated by male directors. But Correa, uses the familiar tropes of those genres to wreak new meanings from them, ones especially timely given our current fraught civic tensions."