Davina Pardo is an Emmy®-award winning filmmaker who produced the HBO documentary VERY SEMI-SERIOUS. She is the director of several award-winning documentary shorts -- 116 CAMERAS (POV, New York Times Op-Docs), MINKA (True/False, Hot Docs, Full Frame, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Aspen Shortsfest), and BIRDLINGS TWO (Toronto International Film Festival, Tribeca) -- for which she’s been nominated for Cinema Eye Honors and IDA Awards and shortlisted for the Academy Awards. A native of Canada living in Brooklyn, her first job in film was working as assistant to David Cronenberg. Davina received an MA in Documentary Production from Stanford University and a BA from Amherst College.