- DISCLOSURE
- STORMING CAESARS PALACE
- FIRST VOTE
- AMERICAN MASTERS: MARIAN ANDERSON: THE WHOLE WORLD IN HER HANDS
- DECADE OF FIRE
- BARTOLO
- BELLY OF THE BEAST
- WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND
- SIRENS
- TRACES OF HOME
- ALL WE'VE LOST
- CONSCIENCE POINT
- BLACK BARBIE
- A CHASM IN CHINATOWN
- BUSY INSIDE
- SEADRIFT
- THE JUDGE
- BUILDING THE AMERICAN DREAM
- VOICES OF THE SEA
- LAILA AT THE BRIDGE
- MY COUNTRY NO MORE
- WHAT WAS OURS
- AMERICAN SONS
- DAO OF THAO
- GIRL MODEL
- THE DISRUPTED
- OTHER MUSIC
- OLYMPIA
- THE DISABILITY ROAD MAP
- THE AMERICANS
- CREDIBLE FEAR
- NOMADS
- THE NOBLE HALF
- LA QUIMI
- LEFT ON PURPOSE
- FLOOD
- THE ART OF UNWAR
- TRUE BELIEVER
- SERVED LIKE A GIRL
- CROWS ARE WHITE
- YOUR FRIEND, MEMPHIS
- HAVANA, FROM ON HIGH
- SANCTUARY
- THE GUARDIANS
- A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH: A FILM ABOUT CITIES THROUGH THE LENS OF JANE JACOBS
- CALL HER GANDA
- SWIM TEAM
- ALMOST SUNRISE
- DOG WALK HOME
- PAHOKEE
- UNCLE HOWARD
- WRIT WRITER
- UNSEEN
- WORDS WITH GODS
- GIVE UP TOMORROW
- THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE AS TOLD BY WONDER WOMAN
- BECOMING BULLETPROOF
- THE SENSITIVES
- RICH HILL
- TRANSFORMISTAS
- SONATA MULATICCA
- A BUNCH OF AMATEURS
- GIRL WRESTLER
- SOUTHWEST OF SALEM: THE STORY OF THE SAN ANTONIO FOUR
- WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM
- FACING FORWARD
- Dyslexia-ville Kickstarter campaign
- Inside The Circle
- Invisible Girlfriend
- Flying On One Engine
- The Dressmakers
- Whales of Gold
- The Way North
- Learning To Swallow
- Are the Kids Alright?
- Atomic Ed & The Black Hole
- The Informant
About Joanna Rabiger
Joanna Rabiger is a leading specialist (carving out her niche since 2004) in writing funding proposals for documentary films, including story development and treatments. She works closely with directors, producers and production companies. Her background is in book editing (Oxford University Press) and independent documentary film editing/ associate producing. She was a reader/editor for David Redmon’s book VIDEO ETHNOGRAPHY: THEORY, METHODS, AND ETHICS (Routledge, 2019). Directors/producers with whom she works or has worked include: Hazel Gurland-Pooler (STORMING CAESARS PALACE); Leandro Fabrizi Rios, Neyda Martinez and Carol Colmenares (BARTOLO); Rita Baghdadi (SIRENS); Yi Chen (FIRST VOTE); Chelsea Hernandez (BUILDING THE AMERICAN DREAM); Iliana Sosa WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND; Treva Wurmfeld (CONSCIENCE POINT); Sam Feder & Amy Scholder (DISCLOSURE); Sarah Colt & Josh Gleason (THE DISRUPTED); Vanessa Carr & Josh Gleason (NOMADS); Yael Bridge (SOCIALISM: AN AMERICAN STORY); Vivian Vázquez Irizarry & Gretchen Hildebran (DECADE OF FIRE); Kim Hopkins & Margareta Svabo of Labor of Love Films (VOICES OF THE SEA, A BUNCH OF AMATEURS); Lagueria Davis (BLACK BARBIE); Jason Osder (AMERICA SELLS ITSELF); Tim Tsai (SEADRIFT); Justin Schein (LEFT ON PURPOSE); David Redmon & Ashley Sabin (GIRL MODEL & many others); Lysa Heslov (SERVED LIKE A GIRL); She has also worked with P J Raval (CALL ME GANDA), Hemal Trivedi (AMONG THE BELIEVERS), Michael Collins & Marty Syjuco (GIVE UP TOMORROW), Mat Hames (WHAT WAS OURS), Matt Tyrnauer (CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY), Laura Paglin (UNSEEN), and Erika Cohn (BELLY OF THE BEAST & THE JUDGE).
Joanna was a successful (great feedback!) specialist guest in a Q&A workshop led by producer Su Kim at the 2021 UnionDocs Summer Documentary Lab with a cohort of 8 documentary filmmakers reporting to Union Doc’s Grace Remington.
Joanna Rabiger lives in Austin, Texas and originally hails from London, UK. She is a fluent French speaker and has worked on several French language films.