Daria Sommers is a NYC-based independent filmmaker whose work includes both documentaries and narrative fiction. Her film Lioness (co-directed with Meg McLagan) was broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens. Her work has garnered support from the NEH, the NEA, the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Fledgling Fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures, NYSCA and Impact Partners. Among her previous films is the documentary Eastern Spirit Western World, which was broadcast nationally on PBS, BBC and CBC and premiered at the Smithsonian Institution. She also produced and directed Vermont’s Rap Lab Media Project about disadvantaged youth caught up in the legal system.