Name |
Victoria Mahoney |
Height |
5 ft 8 in |
Naionality |
American |
Date of Birth |
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Place of Birth |
New York City, New York, U.S. |
Famous for |
Acting |
Born and raised in New York. Victoria began her theatrical training, in Shelley Winters exclusive classes at the Actors Studio. Eventually withdrawing from years of money gigs in acting to pursue film studies.
Victoria developed her debut feature film "Yelling to the Sky" through the Directors and Screenwriters Sundance Institute Labs and was named an Auerbach Fellow, Annenberg Fellow, Cinereach Fellow, Maryland Fellow and IFP Narrative Lab fellow. She was named one of, "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine, one of ShadowAndAct/IndieWire's "Filmmakers to Watch" and one of, "3 Filmmakers to Watch" in Elle Magazine's, Women In Hollywood issue.
Her first feature, World Premiered in 'Main Competition' at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Golden Bear. With a North American Premiere at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival and since gone around the world screening in Competition at; Deauville Film Festival, Mumbai Film Festival, Giffoni Film Festival, Guanajuato Int'l Film Festival, Urbanworld Film Festival, Gen Art Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival and Film Society Lincoln Center among others.