Cassandra Herrman

Lecturer

Continuing Lecturer

Alumni

Cassandra Herrman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, immersive storyteller and journalist. She is drawn to stories that explore the intersection of the criminal justice system, gender and race, and those that disrupt mainstream media representations. Her immersive storytelling work includes After Solitary, a collaboration between Emblematic Group and PBS’s FRONTLINE, which was honored with the Jury Award for Room Scale VR at SXSW and ONA’s Excellence in Immersive Storytelling Award. She directed and produced the Emmy-nominated documentary Tulia, Texas — co-produced with ITVS and broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens — about a town torn apart by the racial injustices in America’s War on Drugs. In addition to developing a documentary about intimate partner violence, she is in post-production on the independent film, When I Say Africa, about enduring representations and stereotypes of the African continent. Her work has been nominated for three News and Documentary Emmys, has shown­ at film festivals around the world, and appeared on Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines series, FRONTLINE/World, PBS NewsHour, and in the New York Times. She is a Continuing Lecturer in visual storytelling at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she received her master’s degree.

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MEDIA PLATFORMS

Documentary, Multimedia, Video Journalism