Cinnamon Triano is a documentary filmmaker and artist living in Detroit and Los Angeles. In 2012, she received her BFA in Video and Film Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating, she spent the next few years traveling internationally to work on several cinéma vérité films, often living with her documentary subjects long-term and documenting their everyday lives. Once back in the US, she worked as a freelance production assistant on hundreds of commercial, scripted, reality, and documentary sets in both Detroit and Los Angeles before moving up the ranks. She also spent a few years as a photography assistant and digital archivist for several high-profile celebrity and fashion editorial photographers, organizing and cataloging their massive collection of prints, slides, film negatives and video tapes. 

Today, Triano works professionally as a documentary and commercial Field Producer, Post-Production Story Producer, and Camera Operator for several streaming platforms. Career highlights include several docuseries such as “Cheer”, “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders”, “Popstar Academy: KATSEYE” on Netflix, among others. She also camera operated and associate produced for the upcoming documentary feature “The World According to Allee Willis”, which will have its national theatrical release in November 2024. Her commercial work includes Field Producing and Location Coordinating a national commercial campaign for Spectrum Internet, creating local spots for over 30 U.S. cities. 

Her personal work includes short documentaries, such as her 30-min thesis film “The Mary Jane Project”, which pieces together the life of her aunt who died of an accidental overdose as a teenager in 1971 through spoken stories and 8mm home movies. As a visual artist, Triano creates digital collage animations, which consist of her drawings, photos, mixed media collages, with found archival slides and 8mm film. During the lockdown of 2020, she also began an ongoing photo series of surreal self-portraits that she superimposes over drawn and digitally collaged fantastical (and sometimes apocalyptic) backdrops.