About

Mikaela is a documentary filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles. As a director and producer, her debut feature documentary about undocumented activist Angy Rivera, Don’t Tell Anyone/No Le Digas a Nadie, broadcast on PBS/POV in the fall of 2015 and was honored with the George Foster Peabody Award. In 2016, she worked with PBS SoCal and KCPT to direct, produce, and edit eight short documentaries about the pursuit of the American dream for the national online series, Re:Dream. Her work has been supported by Sundance, Film Independent, ITVS, Women in Film, Doc NYC, IFP/Gotham, The Fledgling Fund, The Logan Nonfiction Program, and Women Make Movies. She is an Associate of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and a fellow of the Logan Nonfiction Program and the Film Independent Documentary Lab. 

Mikaela’s editing career spans 15 years of working in post-production, working with Blowback Productions, Steeplechase Films, and Story Syndicate in New York, and Jane Doe Films and Tremolo Productions in Los Angeles. She worked as an Editor, Writer, and Co-Producer on the four-part documentary series Allen v. Farrow (HBO) for which Mikaela was honored with 2 Emmy nominations along with nominations for an ACE Eddie award and Cinema Eye Honors for her work on the series. In 2022, she edited for the Netflix documentary series, Harry & Meghan, which became the all-time most watched documentary on Netflix, and most recently, she edited on the documentary series, Last Call, for HBO and Story Syndicate to be released in the summer of 2023. She is also currently directing her second feature documentary about the Troubled Teen Industry.