Kori Feener

Kori Feener is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and photographer who believes in the power of storytelling. Feener's work has been screened in festivals, and at events and universities across the United States. In 2013, she released Hard Way Home, a feature that gave her the unique opportunity to turn the camera on herself as she attempted to thru-hike 2,000 miles of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Hard Way Home premiered at the Virginia Film Festival in 2013 to a sold-out crowd and went on to win the Best Feature award at the Chattanooga Film Festival. Feener is also working on a long-term feature documentary entitled Bea with Emmy award-winning cinematographer Allen Moore. Bea is a coming of age tale about a young girl with a genetic condition so rare, no one else in the world has it. Her journalism work has been featured on AJ+, the AP and Democracy Now! She has worked as Assistant Editor to the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee, and is an active member of the Non-Fiction Cartel, a working collaborative whose purpose is to support, create and enhance documentary media making in the New England area. Feener is available for producing and editing video content, as well as workshops, training and photography.