Annie Nocenti is a journalist, writer, editor and filmmaker. She teaches “bootcamp filmmaking,” most recently to at-risk teenagers in Kingston, NY, to Cherokee Native Americans at the Tulsa International Film Festival, and in Norway for the Indigenous Film Circle.
She taught filmmaking in Haiti for two years. After the earthquake in January 2010 she spent four months producing films — reportage, short docs, a feature documentary, and commissioned PSAs for various NGOs, — with her students at the Cine Institute in Jacmel, Haiti. She sold the short documentary series she produced with her students to CBC TV Canada.
Her journalism has appeared in Details, Utne, HEEB, Stop Smiling, PRINT, Filmmaker, Scenario, and more. She has written about Baluchistan (The Most Expensive Road Trip in the World, Best Travel Writing 2008) and made a documentary about the resistance fighters in Baluchistan (with Wendy Johnson) called The Baluch. Her feature script Taking Chances was produced in 2009. Nocenti is also known for her work in comics, writing Daredevil, editing the X-Men, and creating the characters Longshot, Typhoid, Spiral, Blackheart and many more. Nocenti is currently writing Green Arrow. She was the script editor of The Fifth Night, a screenplay reading series, and the editor of Scenario, a screenwriting magazine. Her series about teaching in Haiti, Goudou Goudou, can be found at http://hilobrow.com/tag/goudou-goudou/
Annie Nocenti
P.O. Box 68
Canal Street Station
New York, NY 10013-0068
WRITER/EDITOR/TEACHER
Teacher
November 2011 to present – Mentor at the Indigenous Film Circle, Samiland Norway
Summer 2011 – Taught film to Cherokee Native Americans at the Tulsa International Film Festival
August 2010 – teaching film to at-risk teens in Kingston, NY
2008 – 2010 Film teacher (documentary and fiction), at the Cine Institute in Haiti, a program supported by Francis Coppola.
Taught journalism at the School of Authentic journalism in Mexico.
For NYC’s LEAP program, taught playwriting in the South Bronx public school system.
Writer
2010 – Tales From Haiti: http://hilobrow.com/tag/goudou-goudou/
2009 – present Hilowbrow.com and Significant Objects Project
The Most Expensive Road Trip in the World published in the Best Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain.
2009 The Black Doll, interview with Edward Gorey
2008 The Keane review, illustrated story
2008 The Darker Mask, short story
Journalism, interviews, profiles, short fiction and essays on film, art, books and politics have appeared in Details, Utne, HEEB, Stop Smiling, PRINT, The Independent, Filmmaker, Scenario, The Brooklyn Rail, High Times, Longshot, Transformations, CounterPunch, Lies of Our Times, In These Times, Mountain Eagle, Ulster, Chronogram, Olive Press, Kingston Freeman, Prison Life, New York Press, The Darker Mask
Sample article: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2006/12/express/letter-from-baluchistan
Interviews with scores of directors and screenwriters (Coppola, Polanski, Soderberg, Aronofsky, Mel Brooks, Steve Martin, Mary Harron, etc.) published and anthologized.
Comics: Daredevil, Longshot, Typhoid Mary, Batman, Kid Eternity (DC and Marvel.)
Plays performed at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors series and the 24-Hour Play Series.
Short films: The 48-Hour Film, The Baluch http://blip.tv/file/1211472, Creep
Radio: http://www.fancystitchmachine.org/conflux.htm
Editor/Writer
2006-2009 Writer/Editor-at-Large, Stop Smiling magazine
2006 co-Editor It Takes A Nation, for moveon.org
2005 co-Editor, Altered States of America: the journalism of Richard Stratton
2005 to present Editor, Nantucket Film Festival Catalogue
2004 co-Editor, The High Times Reader a literary anthology (Nation Books)
2003-2004 Editor/Writer, High Times magazine
1996-2002 Editor/Writer, Scenario magazine
1993-1995 Editor-at-Large/Writer, Prison Life magazine
1990-1991 Associate Editor Lies of our Times magazine
1986-1990 Editor/Writer, Marvel Comics
Editing/Copy Editing/Proofreading
Game Face (Virgin Books, editor: Ken Siman)
Tar magazine (Editor: John Buffalo Mailer)
Scenario, High Times, Prison Life and Stop Smiling magazines
Other
Film development/treatments/screenplays for various film production companies.
Script editor and organizer for The Fifth Night, a screenplay reading series at the Nuyorican Poets Café in NYC, producing a staged reading weekly for five years.
Pro Bono consultant and advisor for the Woodstock Film Festival
Dramaturge for Stitching, starring John Ventimiglia at the Wild Project, NYC, June 2008, and at the Lillian in LA in 2009; dramaturg for Bath Party (Here Theater, NYC, 2006).