Reed Morano was the recipient of the Kodak Vision Award for Cinematography at the 2011 Women In Film Crystal + Lucy Awards. She was named one of Variety's "10 Cinematographers to Watch" in 2011 as well as one of IONCINEMA.com's "American New Wave 25". In December 2011, Reed was featured as one of the five innovative cinematographers in ICG Magazine's "Generation Next" spotlight.

Reed's work in the past year includes The Magic of Belle Isle, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen, which will have a theatrical release this summer; and Free Samples, directed by Jay Gammill, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler and Tippi Hedren. She wrapped up the year shooting 35mm and 65mm in the Tyrolean Alps in Austria on the dark drama Autumn Blood, starring Sophie Lowe and Peter Stormare.

Several other features Reed has shot are slated for theatrical release in 2012: the Sundance Directors Lab film Little Birds, which premiered in competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, written and directed by Elgin James, starring Juno Temple, Kate Bosworth and Leslie Mann; and Yelling to the Sky, also from the Sundance Directors Lab and the IFP's Independent Filmmaker Labs, which had its world premiere in competition at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival and US premiere at SXSW 2011, written and directed by Victoria Mahoney and starring Zoe Kravitz, Gabourey Sidibe and Tim Blake Nelson.

This year Reed's work will again be featured at the Sundance Film Festival. For Ellen, a 35mm feature written and directed by So Yong Kim, starring Paul Dano, Jon Heder, and Jena Malone, is premiering in the dramatic competition; and a feature length documentary/narrative hybrid that Reed shot last year, Shut Up and Play the Hits, directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, is also premiering in the festival's popular Park City at Midnight lineup (see the trailer here). Reed's previous work at Sundance includes Little Birds and Frozen River, which won the prestigious Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 festival and went on to be nominated for two Academy Awards and seven Independent Spirit Awards including Best Picture. Reed's work on the film was the subject of an article in American Cinematographer.

She is currently in pre-production for Lonely Hunter, a biopic of the writer Carson McCullers, to be directed by Deborah Kampmeier (Hounddog), starring Jena Malone.

Reed has been shooting narrative features for the past 14 years. A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she was honored with awards in cinematography, Reed was later chosen by the faculty to be an adjunct professor in the film department where she taught cinematography for two years. Reed lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two children.

For samples of her most recent work and her latest reels, please contact Reed or her agent, Mira Yong at Gersh. Selected stills from some of her films can be seen on the press page.