About

Abby is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. She directed and executive produced the critically acclaimed three part series, Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer. The series premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival and reached #2 on hulu after its release. Mastermind was produced by Campfire Studios and Dakota and Elle Fanning’s Lewellen productions.

Abby is one of the filmmakers behind the critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated, IDA Award-winning and James Beard Award-winning series, Chef’s Table, which is currently the longest-running series on Netflix. She directed episodes featuring: Christina Martinez, Mashama Bailey, Ana Ros, Yoshihiro Imai and Tim Raue.

She also directed Dear Oprah for Apple TV+, the award-winning feature documentary Do You Dream in Color?, and co-directed John Leguizamo: Live at Rikers, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2020, she was awarded the Move Mountains Filmmaker grant from The NorthFace, and directed the documentary, Shepherd’s Song, which premiered at MountainFilm in Telluride and went on to screen at over twenty festivals nationwide including the San Francisco International Film Festival and closing night of the Santa Barbara International Festival.

She recently completed a three part series, GOAT for MasterClass and a short film for Walt Disney World Resorts.

Abby’s commercials and branded content are known for their strong visual language, intimate access with subjects, and creative visual storytelling and editing.

She is a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and also attended the FAMU School in Prague, CZ.

When not working on films around the world, she lives on a regenerative cattle ranch in southern Oregon with her husband and dog, Charlotte.