Hannah Roodman is a director and producer whose work moves between cinema, social practice, and performance. With a background in documentary, she has spent the past 15 years creating films and hybrid works that treat storytelling as a site of cultural repair while pushing genre and form.

Her directing credits include the documentaries Project 2x1 and 40 Days of Teshuvah, both exploring racial healing in Brooklyn. As a producer, she is completing two independent hybrid nonfiction features: New Here, about the future of digital culture, directed by Dan Sickles and produced alongside Oscar-winner Shane Boris; and Yo, a Sundance Institute–supported film directed by Anna Fitch about the power of friendship and art to transmute loss. Both are slated for release in 2026.

Commercially, Hannah has led campaigns for artists and organizations such as Alicia Keys, the Malala Fund, and UNICEF, approaching each collaboration as a shared act of trust, curiosity, and creative play.

In 2019, she earned her MFA in Transdisciplinary Design from Parsons School of Design, where she expanded her creative praxis through participatory design methods—exploring storytelling through physical objects, experience design, and speculative futuring. At Parsons, she also taught courses in Social Practice Art and Design Activism, and her design work was recognized with the Hearst and Provost Awards and presented at the Cumulus Design Conference.

In 2016, Hannah co-founded Well of Wills, a social practice collective that empowers marginalized voices within American Jewish communities. Through film, performance, and workshops centering queer and nonbinary experience, the collective reimagines Jewish tradition as a living, liberatory toolkit for creative resistance and belonging.

Find me on social or hit me up via email at hannah.roodman@gmail.com

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