Ramey Newell

Vernon, Canada

Ramey Newell is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in British Columbia, Canada. Her documentary and experimental films have won multiple awards and have screened in film festivals, universities, galleries, museums and other art spaces throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia, including: the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Mountainfilm in Telluride, Colorado; SCINEMA International Science Film Festival in Australia; Alchemy Moving Image Festival in Hawick, Scotland; and many others.

Ramey holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from New Mexico State University, a Graduate Certificate in Documentary Media Practices and a Certificate in College Teaching from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia. She was also a 2016 Flaherty Seminar Fellow, a 2019 IWFF Filmmaker Lab Fellow and Independent Imaging Film Farm participant, a 2021 Jackson Wild Summit Fellow and Whistler Film Festival Doc Lab participant, and the winner of the 2022 Symbiosis film competition at Imagine Science Film Festival. She currently teaches film studies, video production, and documentary film production at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, and is in post-production on the feature-length documentary, A GOOD WOLF.