Azza Cohen (she/her) is an independent documentary director, producer, cinematographer, videographer, and editor from Highland Park, Illinois. She proudly served as the Official Videographer & Director of Video for historic Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris from 2022 - 2025. In February 2025, Azza co-founded Cohen Borschow Media with her wife Kathleen to reframe the way womxn and queer folx are portrayed in visual media. Their clients include Stanford University, Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, Emily’s List, PERSIST, and Justice Connection.

Azza earned a BA from Princeton University in 2016, an MA in Culture and Colonialism from Galway University in 2017 as a Mitchell Scholar, and an MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University in 2022 as a Knight Hennessy Scholar.

Azza has directed and shot over 10 short documentaries uplifting compelling issues and courageous individuals, from Rwandan refugees adapting to life in New Jersey, to activists fighting human trafficking in Varanasi, India, to communities along the Ireland-Northern Ireland border in the wake of Brexit, to her own struggles with chronic migraine.

Azza’s latest film FLOAT! is a short documentary following another inspiring person, her Bubbe, as she checks ‘learn to swim’ off her bucket list at 82. FLOAT!, Azza’s MFA thesis, was acquired by The New Yorker, selected for major film festivals including the Austin Film Festival, and won numerous awards including the Marlyn Mason Award 1st Prize honoring new perspectives by women at Flickers Rhode Island, best documentary and audience choice at DC Shorts, and best documentary at Shortie.

Azza is also a thought leader on visual sexism: she taught a seminar at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics this spring, publishes a multimedia column on The Contrarian, and is writing a book about visual sexism (she is represented by Bridget Matzie at Aevitas).