Background

Volchan O’Conor is interested in producing content that highlight the ingenuity, compassion and resilience of the human spirit. She produces content that supports organizations to communicate the value of their products/services. She is especially driven to lend her skills toward highlighting the stories of those working to heal our natural world.

Volchan O'Conor’s clients included Techstars, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the History Colorado center’s Colorado Encyclopedia, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Boulder Library Foundation, Colorado Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (COEHDI), the Universal Baby Project, Roundup River Ranch, etc.

She has filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the Russian State Museum, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Kremlin Museum, etc.

Feature-length documentay, 'Pioneers,' which Volchan O'Conor directed, produced, filmed, and edited won ‘Best Colorado Feature’ at the DocuWest Film Festival and has been broadcast on RMPBS and CPT and screened at the History Colorado Center, the Center for Colorado Women’s History, the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Art Museum, The Boulder Chautauqua, the Firehouse Art Center, etc.

Volchan O'Conor has collaborated with Director Judith Wechsler, as an editor on five feature-length biographical documentaries: ‘Isaiah Berlin: Philosopher of Freedom’, 'Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination', 'Aby Warburg Metamorphosis and Memory,' 'The Passages of Walter Benjamin' and ‘Nahum N. Glatzer and the German-Jewish Tradition’, which are distributed online by Hoopla and circulated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York's circulating film library. These films have been screened at the Harvard Art Museum, Princeton University, Oxford University, NYU's Institute for the Humanities, London's Warburg Institute, the Jerusalem Film Festival, etc.

A Portuguese, Mandarin (conversational), Spanish (conversational), French (limited) and American Sign Language (conversational) speaker/signer, Volchan O'Conor previously worked as a contributing reporter and research assistant for the New York Times in Rio de Janeiro, as an English-language coach for actress Zhang Ziyi ('Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'), as an assistant to actress Tang Wei ('Lust Caution') and assistant unit publicist on Michael Mann's 'Blackhat', and as the producer and director of 'AmeriCooking', a 262 four-minute episode web series delivering American culinary culture to Chinese audiences. She collaborated with Black Cube, the Denver based nomadic art museum, on an audio tour of their Gold Hill exhibit, and has worked in a production and post-production capacity for Techstars as well as startups going through the Techstars accelerator programs, and produced the Venture Deals revamped course in 2022.