Sierra Pettengill
TFI Support
TFI Documentary Fund 2012
About
Sierra Pettengill is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and archivist. Town Hall, her directorial debut (co-directed with Jamila Wignot) broadcast nationally on PBS in 2014. She is the producer of the Academy Award® nominated documentary Cutie and the Boxer, and the archival producer of Matt Wolf’s Teenage. She is currently producing The Reagan Years, directed by Pacho Velez and directing a short documentary in Afghanistan, Hall of the Evening Star.
The Reagan Show
THE REAGAN SHOW is about a prolific actor’s defining role: Leader of the Free World. It uses the Reagan administration's internal documentation to capture the spectacle of American might at its acme.
Cutie and the Boxer
Cutie and The Boxer is a love story that explores the chaotic forty-year marriage of New York-based Japanese artists Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, offering a candid look at two headstrong yet ultimately complimentary personalities.