Vickie Curtis

Vickie Curtis is a Filmmaker and Writer. She won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program for her work on The Social Dilemma. Her screen credits include writing the Emmy-winning Netflix Original films Chasing Coral (Sundance) and The Social Dilemma (Sundance), The Weight of Water (Banff), Adventure Not War (Tribeca), Classic (DFF), The Arctic (IMAX) and story architecture for Island Soldier (PBS, HotDocs), Anbessa (Berlinale), and Frame by Frame (SXSW, Cinema Eye nominee). Vickie was accepted to IDFAcademy Doc Summer School in Amsterdam to develop Anbessa with director Mo Scarpelli, and also served as writer/director of the photojournalist collective @EverdayAfrica's mixed-media gallery performances in New York City and Nairobi. As a former educator within the Progressive Education movement, Vickie developed the Education Impact Campaign for Chasing Coral, galvanizing student-driven, local climate action projects across the US. In 2019, Vickie began directing Comparsa, a nonfiction film about two lionhearted teenage sisters living in the outskirts of Guatemala City and using circus and theatre to dismantle the systems of oppression that threaten their lives. Vickie received her MFA at Naropa University and resides in Colorado.