Cassidy Batiz is a filmmaker from Dallas, Texas, based in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently an MFA film candidate at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she’s been awarded the Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Scholarship and the W.T.C Johnson scholarship to attend.

Her narrative short BIG LOT has screened at festivals nationally and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Award. She is the recipient of the Alan Landsburg Documentary Production Award for her upcoming short documentary, METAL DAD, and is currently in post-production on her narrative short, JEJUNE. As an editor, Cassidy has worked for The New York Times and for independent documentary filmmakers. She is a fellow at the 2025 NYU Production Lab Feature Film Development Studio and a 2025 Purple List Screenplay Award winner with her Texas-set feature script, SWEETWATER.

She obtained a BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design with a minor in Creative Writing. Her photographs have appeared in Phaidon,Vice, and Radius Books, among others. While at RISD, she was awarded the Photography Departmental Award of Excellence.

cassidy.s.batiz@gmail.com