Natalie Joey Camou

Natalie Camou is a recent directing graduate from the AFI Conservatory. She came from working as a full-time documentary producer at Blue Chalk Media and is a graduate from the photography master's program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, where her thesis film TEREZA was awarded the 2017 Inaugural Audi Fellowship for Women. Natalie's filmmaking approach is greatly influenced by her Mexican heritage and experiences growing up in a mobile home park with her young single mother. She looks forward to shadowing directors Melina Matsoukas, Tiffany Johnson, and Chinonye Chukwu in the coming months.