About me

Skylar is an Emmy-nominated and Webby Award-winning documentary filmmaker based in New York City, dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices through compelling storytelling. Growing up with an intellectually disabled brother, and having a disability herself, she understands what it is like to be misrepresented in society — and in film. Through her work, she hopes to change popular misconceptions of those who deal with stigma.

She received her B.A. in Film & Media Studies at University of California, Berkeley in May of 2016. Throughout her time as an undergraduate student, she studied and specialized in film theory (documentary and scripted film), entrepreneurship, Middle Eastern politics, and Arabic.

Her films have earned recognition from the Clinton Global Initiative, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, and Red Bull Amaphiko’s Academy for Social Entrepreneurs, reflecting her commitment to impactful narratives. Skylar served as Assistant Director and Line Producer for Rodrigo Reyes’s critically acclaimed hybrid documentary Sansón and Me (Tribeca 2022) and as Production Manager for Contessa Gayles’s Songs from the Hole, which premiered at SXSW 2024 and won the Visions Audience Award.

With Outside the Lens, a nonprofit media literacy organization, and in collaboration with the UNHCR, NRC, and IRC, Skylar facilitated photography empowerment workshops with young women in Syrian refugee camps in Jordan. In collaboration with the Mediteran Film Festival, she coordinated a cross-cultural high school film program in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Currently, she is a Creative Producer and Director for Condé Nast (Architectural Digest, VOGUE, SELF, Condé Nast Traveler). In addition, Skylar is directing two feature films: an original criminal justice documentary feature in collaboration with Everywoman Studios, Big City TV, and Endeavor (WME), and a personal hybrid documentary film about her experiences with epilepsy in collaboration with 371 Productions. She is also the creator and showrunner of two of Architectural Digest’s most successful video series, streaming on YouTube, AD.com, and Amazon’s FAST TV, further cementing her reputation as a visionary in digital and broadcast media.

For business inquiries, collaborations, or for more information regarding my work, please contact: skylareconomy@gmail.com

Changing the dialogue through film.