 Daria Price  |
The Filmmaker
A native New Yorker, Daria Price is a filmmaker with a diverse background, who works in both documentary and fiction films.
Her first feature documentary, OUT ON A LIMB, received the NY Women In Film & TV Finishing Fund Grant and won the "Best Documentary Award" at the 2013 Boston International Film Festival. Distributed by NETA, it played on numerous PBS stations, and is distributed by APTWorldwide internationally. She wrote, produced, directed, and edited the award-winning SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, a satirical mystery that lampoons America's obsession with youth and beauty. It was featured on Comcast’s On Demand Cutting Edge series, played at a dozen festivals worldwide, and won several awards, including the Fusion Audience Award at DancesWithFilms in Los Angeles. Her screenplay THE NESTING was produced and nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Film at Madrid's IMAGFIC festival. Writers Guild of America East selected her screenplay BLOOD FROM A STONE for a staged reading with Patricia Clarkson, Stephen Lang, and Aida Turturro. DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION, her most recent documentary, was nominated at London's Raindance Film Festival for Best Documentary 2019, received grants from NYSCA and NYWIF and is distributed by Grasshopper Films and available on Amazon and Apple. Daria was the field producer and videographer on Canada's Vision TV series TWIST OF FAITH and on Hdnet's World Report THE SILENT EPIDEMIC: DIABETES IN KIDS. She has directed science and technology stories for APTN, the BBC, and HDnet. She was also a Script Supervisor on numerous feature films and commercials and a member of IATSE as well as Writers Guild of America East. |