Karen Rodriguez is a filmmaker, videographer and cinematographer who founded Wind-Up Pictures in 2018. She previously worked as one of the primary filmmakers for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the world’s leading center for research on birds and their habitats. Karen is the cinematographer on the short documentary, Deciding Vote from Wheelhouse Creative, which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. She is the director of photography for the feature documentary, Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing. She has also designed live streams for many productions at The Cherry Theatre in Ithaca, New York. Karen is a Fulbright Scholar (2017) and former delegate to the American Documentary Showcase (Poland, 2010). She holds an MFA in film and video production from the University of Iowa Graduate College.