Helena Holland Breger is a filmmaker, writer, and artist from and based in New York City. She was raised in the East Village and now lives in Brooklyn.

Her work focuses on sexual politics, the experience of women in the margins, and the struggle for people to communicate with one another.

She wrote, directed, and co-produced “Sympathy for the Devil,” a short film in post-production to be completed in 2024.

She produced “Baba Yaga Smoked Me Out,” a short film that premiered at the 35th NewFest LGBTQ Film Festival and Ax Wound Film Festival in fall 2023.

She graduated with a B.F.A. in Film from the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory, as well as a minor in literature and a concentration on feminist, political, and international cinema.

Before college, she pursued filmmaking as teenager at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens. While in high school, her short films “Spare Change” and “The Buzz of Ruby Joy” were selected for Tribeca Film Festival’s Our City My Story program. Her short that she wrote/directed “Wanda” was selected for New York Lift Off Film Festival 2020 and Chicago Arthouse Film Festival 2019.

She is a self-taught visual artist, focusing mainly in mixed-media works on paper and acrylic painting. Her “Buff Women” series and “Mustached Ladies” series explore and celebrate gender nonconformity and androgyny and challenge female representation in playful ways.

Breger works as a gaffer, and is always eager to work on a new project. She is experienced in narrative, documentary, music videos, commercials, and more. She is especially passionate about working on female-centered, LGBTQ, and social justice projects.