Pilar Timpane

Pilar Timpane is a documentary filmmaker and producer based in Durham, NC. Her work has focused on intersectional women’s stories and community-led change. She is the producer of the forthcoming feature documentary THE LAST PARTERA (dir Victoria Bouloubasis and Ned Phillips). She was an ITVS/NEH Humanities Documentary Development Fellow and Logan Nonfiction Program Fellow. Her experimental short THE NOVICES (2024) was released on Aeon Magazine. Her short film SANTUARIO (2019, PBS/ReelSouth & AlJazeera Witness, co-dir Christine Delp) was the winner of the Best Documentary Short Jury Prize at New Orleans Film Festival 2018, the Crested Butte ActNow Award and the IF/Then Shorts American South Pitch. Her work has screened at film festivals including Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. She is an alumna of the Women in Film, the Southern Documentary Fund, Tribeca Film Institute, Working Films, the Museum of the Moving Image’s work-in-progress program, and a fellow of the New Orleans Film Society Southern Producers Lab. She was named a 2021 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist by the Durham Arts Council. She is the mother of two daughters, frequent speaker on documentary ethics and method, and an advocate for human rights around the world.