Victoria Mahoney

Victoria Mahoney is a filmmaker and actress best known for her debut feature Yelling to the Sky.

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s Mahoney worked as an actress appearing in small roles in the TV show Seinfeld and the movie Legally Blonde.

In 1992 she starred as "Antinea" in the French film L'Atlantide, based on the French novel Atlantida by Pierre Benoit.

Her most recent appearance in front of the camera was a brief cameo in Ava DuVernay's short film Say Yes in 2013.

Mahoney made her directing debut in 2011 with the semi-autobiographical film Yelling to the Sky. The film follows a young girl’s struggle in high school and her difficult home life. The film, which starred Zoe Kravitz as a troubled teen and Jason Clarke as her abusive alcoholic father, debuted in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. She developed the script through the help of the Directors and Screenwriters Sundance Institute Labs and was awarded the title of Auerbach Screenwriting Fellow, Annerberg Film Fellow, Cinereach Fellow, Maryland Fellow, IFP Narrative Lab fellow and a Tribeca Film Fellow. The film was written and directed by Victoria Mahoney. Victoria was the first woman director/writer, American invited in over sixty years to the Golden Bear competition.

Mahoney followed Yelling to the Sky with the short film Wracked, starring Noah Mills, in 2012. The film premiered during the Golden Egg Film Festival in May 2013.

In late 2013 she directed a short film starring Selena Gomez and Shiloh Fernandez for Flaunt.

Mahoney has been named as the Second Unit Director for Star Wars Episode 9.