Cheryl Hess is an award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer from Philadelphia. Her work has screened at festivals such as Aspen Shortsfest, the Tribeca Film Festival, Sonoma International Film Festival and many others. Cheryl is a recipient of a prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts and her work has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, the Knight Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Asian Network of Documentary. In 2018 Cheryl won the grand prize in the AIA Film Challenge for a short documentary she directed, shot, and edited in just 16 days. That same year she was a finalist in the Tribeca If/Then Shorts Northeast competition with her latest short “She Got Balls!” which was recently awarded the Best Director (Short) prize at the Atlanta Docufest.  Her first feature documentary, Marriage Cops, recently premiered at Hot Docs and is currently on the festival circuit.  Cheryl has a long background in shooting film and recently started her own YouTube channel called “Analog Girl” in order to make women more visible in the online camera/tech space. She received her MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University.