hope hall is a freelance documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and performer in new york city. she is the recipient of honorable mentions at the sundance, louisville, humboldt, and black maria film festivals in the short documentary category and a yearlong independent study fellowship at the whitney museum.

currently her cinematography work can be seen in the independent feature documentary 'beyond conviction,' a feature documentary on mediation between victim and perpetrator in pennsylvania prisons. her work is also in various current tv productions: bravo's 'tabloid wars;' vh-1's 'live @ vh-1' and 'little beauties;' and mtv's 'overdrive' and 'first year,' a feature documentary following entrepreneur kenny lao's opening of 'rickshaw dumpling bar.'

she has a master's degree in communication from stanford university in documentary film and video and a bachelor's from university of california, berkeley in history and french. currently she is making a film about new york, with frequent collaborators purcell carson and sadia shepard, for the upcoming 10th venice architecture biennale in venice, italy. other current projects include cinematography for vh-1 live and mtv overdrive, and for two feature documentaries, green bananas, and the toy challenge. she is also photographing development in new york for e-xplo's upcoming exhibition in berlin (Dear Hope, Was Anything Lost Or Gained?).

other recent projects include directing multi-channel installation videos for the guggenheim museum's 'art of the motorcycle' exhibition in las vegas, shooting video for mtv's 'true life' series, and for project minga in isabel maria, ecuador and collaborating with projection designer wendall k. harrington on the projection design for the premiere of eve ensler's "the good body."

she is currently in the research phase of several long-term projects on politics and on music. she is also collaborating with filmmaker sadia shepard on a double exposure correspondence film between bombay and new york, and with filmmaker purcell carson on a cine-poem based on mark strand's 'keeping things whole.'

interviews and media coverage

sundance channel: shorts stop: hope hall q &a

stanford magazine: keep it real - farm-bred filmmakers redefine documentary, trying to get closer to the truth

kodak campus beat: student filmmakers, stanford university

saint marys observer online: filmmaker visits saint mary's