Opsoclo Films

CEO of Cinema 48 & Chief Executive Producer for Opsoclo Films.

Princella Parker has extensive experience in all aspects of media production, including research, documentary production, shooting, sound engineer, editing, youth media workshops, and the creation of film websites, educational curriculum and digital learning objects.  She worked as Associate Producer on Standing Bear’s Footsteps, assisting Executive Producer Christine Lesiak with script development, production planning and providing logistical support throughout the production.  She was the principal researcher, acquiring archive photographs and films and clearing rights. To accompany the Standing Bear educational site Parker produced a short film called Bright Eyes, about her admiration for Susette La Flesche.  Parker is a recent graduate with a Masters Degree in Journalism from the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications where she is produced her second documentary for the Native Daughters in-depth reporting course.  The Quiet Power of Danelle Smith, a version of her first Native Daughters documentary broadcast on NET Television in May, 2013.  Princella is a member of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and a graduate of Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Theater. 

Her favorite films include, but not limited to: Agnes Varda's Cleo from 5-7 (1961), Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Chris Marker's Sans Soleil (1962), Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone (2012), Sweetgrass(2010), Edet Belzberg's Children Underground (2001), Jennie Livingston's Paris is Burning (1990), François Truffaut's Jules and Jim (1962) and Richard Linklater's series Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) & Before Midnight (2013).