Varda Bar-Kar

Treasurer
TV & Film Director

Award-winning DGA director and world traveler Varda Bar-Kar had lived on three different continents by the time she was 10 years old. Her international upbringing provides her with a uniquely global and expansive perspective. Varda is an activist filmmaker focusing her lens on the breadth of the human condition. Her work addresses society’s challenges with an uplifting approach that speaks into possibility.

She developed her directing voice creating cause-driven viral videos that amassed tens of millions of views; short films garnering awards at major film festivals; and web series. Varda now directs feature projects and episodic television. Her feature documentary Big Voice chronicling a challenging year in the life of a determined high school choir director won “Best U.S. Premiere” at the Heartland Film Festival and “Best Documentary” at New Filmmakers Los Angeles. Big Voice was picked-up by Netflix.

Varda was selected to participate in Ryan Murphy’s Half Foundation Director Diversity Program. Following her participation in the program, Varda was hired to direct the hit FOX TV show 9-1-1.

Varda is currently directing Fandango at the Wall a feature documentary that delves into the lives and music of the masters of son jarocho, a 300-year-old folk music tradition rooted in the land of Veracruz, Mexico, who join New York City Maestro Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra for a historical music festival called Fandango Fronterizo. This festival takes place simultaneously on both sides of the United States/Mexican border transforming the border wall from an object that divides to one that unites.

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