Career Highlights
- Started her career at the age of 15 as a radio journalist in Paris
- Written and directed her first short, See You on Monday, sponsored by LifeTime Television for the Hamptons Film Festival
- Her first feature length film Ghost Bird: The Life and Art of Judith Deim (2000) won Best Documentary at the 15th Fort Lauderdale Film Festival and the Presidents' Award at Mexico's prestigious Ajijic Film Festival
- FLOW is an award-winning documentary that begs to ask the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"
- FLOW is set to open on the weekend of September 12, 2008
Irena Salina was an actress in theaters in France before coming to New York to study at the Actors Studio. Salina worked in production for several films before writing and directing her own short, See You Monday, which was sponsored by LifeTime television. Her first feature length documentary film was Ghost Bird: The Life and Art of Judith Deim, which was played at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001 and won Best Documentary at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival. Salina also directed 2008’s Flow, a documentary about one of the most important environmental and political issues of the 21st century, the water crisis. She is currently working on her next project with Russel Means and Begonia Plaza called Journey.
Our Interview
ThinkTalk host Nelly Yangmi invited Irena Salina to respond to student questions from the University of Maryland about what inspired her to create her film, FLOW, and where that journey began.
