Pasos de Valor/Steps of Valor

Directed by Natalia C Bell

Type of Project: Drama
Length: 15:00
Producers: Sophia Shi, Natalia C Bell
Editor: Ellie Zarr
Cinematographer: Nicholas Kalajdzic
Sound Design: Rae King  

In 1995, a pregnant MBA student just wants to take her final exam, but her due date conflicts with the exam date and her professor won't make any accommodations. Inspired by the true story of the director's birth.

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Texas border-born, Richmond-raised, Natalia Bell is a director-writer-producer with a passion for telling female-driven, multi-generational stories and advocating for inclusion in entertainment. She is a graduate of New York University, where she earned a BFA in Film & Television from the Tisch School of the Arts and a BS in Finance from the Stern School of Business.

She is also a graduate of the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Science’s Gold Program. In 2019, she was selected as one of four students to represent Gold as a Trophy Presenter at the 91st Academy Awards.

Natalia has worked with Focus Features, Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Annapurna Pictures, Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions, The Weinstein Company, and Chicken & Egg Pictures. She also created commercial films for NYU Langone Health, Dimension Films, and New York University as a freelance commercial director. Currently, she also works in film strategy.