individual lives. pivotal moments. universal experiences.

Dempsey Rice is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work focuses on pivotal moments in individual lives that speak universal human experiences. Connection, personal story, relationship and identity all emerge in her filmmaking.

Her feature length documentary film Daughter of Suicide played at film festivals around the world and premiered on HBO in 2000.  It went on to win multiple awards for mental health programming.  She is the recipient of a NY Emmy as the Series Producer of IMNY (I Am New York). Her hyper-local project The Listening Project: Brooklyn (133 short films) aired on Brooklyn Independent Television. Other projects include Forget Me Nots (2010) and Body Job (2008).