Discipline: Film/Video – feature

Yaara Sumeruk

Discipline: Film/Video – feature
Region: East Elmhurst, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015

Yaara Sumeruk is a South African filmmaker. Her dark comedy Ringo premiered at The Locarno Intl Film Festival. She worked on a feature length screenplay about assassins. Her short films American Daddy, Kim's Kitchen, and Arguing Against the Laws of Gravitation premiered in 2018.

Studios

New Hampshire

Yaara Sumeruk worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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