Tony Oswald and Pisie Hochheim are Same Person — a Nashville-based directing and editing duo. Their directorial work has screened at festivals around the world and their editorial work can be found on HBO, Hulu, and Netflix. They are currently in production on their debut feature documentary, Newville.
Featured in Variety
In 'Newville,' a family that covers the entire American political spectrum
Read →Ten siblings who cover the entire American political spectrum return to their 250-year-old childhood home in Newville, NY for the first time in 35 years. They attempt to repair it, but tensions arise — mirroring a country struggling to find common ground.
"Many people in the U.S. feel completely at odds with their families politically, and it's understandable to choose to shut out or cut off and move on. But for Tony and me, living with difference and trying to find common ground is a belief we desperately try to hang onto."
Awards & Recognition
- Ji.hlava New Visions Award — Most Promising US Project (in partnership with AmDocs)
- Jacob Burns Film Center Award
- Featured in Variety
A single mom from rural Kentucky travels to San Diego to sell her eggs in order to support her two kids, but must grapple with the effect the process has on her body and mind.
Awards & Festivals
- New Hampshire Film Festival — Winner, Jury Prize, Best Short Documentary 2024
- Short of the Week — Official Selection 2025
- Atlanta Film Festival — Official Selection 2024
- Seattle International Film Festival — Official Selection 2024
- AmDocs Film Festival — Official Selection 2024
- IFFBoston — Official Selection 2024
- Beloit International Film Festival — Official Selection 2024
- Ouray International Film Festival — Official Selection 2024
A forgotten handheld camera disrupts the chaotic bedtime routine of a single mother and her young son.
Awards & Festivals
- Best of the Month — Short of the Week
- Vimeo Staff Pick
- Hammer to Nail Shorts Competition — Winner, Fall 2019
- Champs-Élysées Film Festival — Official Selection 2020
- Rhode Island International Film Festival — Official Selection 2020
- Indie Memphis — Official Selection 2020
- Maryland Film Festival — Official Selection 2020
- Brooklyn Film Festival — Official Selection 2020
- Dallas International Film Festival — Official Selection 2020
- Sidewalk Film Festival — Official Selection 2020
- NoBudge — Official Selection 2020
- Wisconsin Film Festival — Official Selection 2020
- Montana International Film Festival — Official Selection 2020
After a visit from the ghost of her grandmother, a woman discovers a mysterious pepper plant which causes her to question whether she will follow in her mother's footsteps or take a different path.
Festivals
- Short of the Week — Official Selection 2025
- New/Next Film Festival — Official Selection 2023
- New Hampshire Film Festival — Official Selection 2023
- IFFBoston — Official Selection 2024
The matriarch of a rural Kentucky family takes issue with her daughter's boyfriend at a gathering to view the total solar eclipse, forcing her to confront her own mysterious past.
Awards & Festivals
- Jim Cummings' Shorts to Feature Lab — 2018
- New Hampshire Film Festival — Jury Award, Live Action 2018
- Hammer to Nail — Winner, Fall 2017
- Maryland Film Festival — Official Selection 2018
- Wisconsin Film Festival — Golden Badger 2018
- IFFBoston — Official Selection 2018
- Dallas International Film Festival — Official Selection 2018
- Bushwick Film Festival — Official Selection 2018
- Ashland Film Festival — Official Selection 2018
- Defy Film Festival — Official Selection 2018
Made in Louisville, KY in the summer of 2020 on Breonna Taylor's birthday.
Directed by Ry Russo-Young. A filmmaker turns the camera on her own past to explore the meaning of family — examining how growing up with two lesbian mothers in the early 1980s led to a landmark custody battle that shaped her childhood and changed the legal landscape for LGBTQ families.
Distribution
- HBO / HBO Max
Talkhouse
"Putting Together the Pieces of Nuclear Family"
Pisie Hochheim writes about the complex process of editing Ry Russo-Young's HBO doc series about her family's explosive past.
Read on Talkhouse →When Vicky White, a highly respected corrections officer, aids the escape of a violent felon nearly twenty years her junior, it reveals an unexpected love story amid the ensuing high-profile manhunt and media frenzy.
Distribution
- Netflix
Directed by Nicole Craine. Produced by Darcy McKinnon. Executive produced by Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst.
Recognition
- Gotham Week — Special Mention, Documentaries 2025
Feature Film directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler. Scored by Beach House.
35-million years ago a giant meteorite collided with the surface of the earth. The earth began to breathe.
Documentary examining the events surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing.
A feature film written and directed by Brandon Colvin, starring Robert Longstreet. Co-edited and produced by Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald.
A narrative feature film written and directed by Brandon Colvin, starring Robert Longstreet. Edited and produced by Tony Oswald.
Brand storytelling and commercial editorial work for JPMorgan Chase.
Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald are Same Person — a Nashville-based directing and editing duo. Their work mines every dimension of family, from those we choose to the ones we're born into — transforming intimate stories into cinematic, universal narratives.
Their shorts have screened at festivals worldwide including SIFF, Ji.hlava, New Orleans, Atlanta, Champs-Élysées, Maryland, Brooklyn, Indie Memphis, IFFBoston, and many more. They've been selected as Vimeo Staff Pick and Best of the Month on Short of the Week. Their feature and series editing work has played Telluride Film Festival and has been distributed by HBO, Netflix, Hulu, and PBS.
They are currently in production on their debut feature documentary Newville and co-editing and producing Kinfolk, directed by Nicole Craine and executive produced by Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst.
Pisie is an editor and filmmaker who works across documentary, narrative, and commercial projects. She edited Ry Russo-Young's HBO documentary series Nuclear Family and co-edited Brandon Colvin's feature A Dim Valley.
She has credits on films directed by Liz Garbus, Debra Granik, Alex Ross Perry, and Ry Russo-Young, and on films produced by Big Beach, including The Incredible Jessica James and The Sunlit Night. She trained at The Edit Center in New York.
With her husband and filmmaking partner Tony Oswald, she co-directed the Vimeo Staff Pick short film Handheld, the award-winning documentary short Cycles, and is currently in production on their debut feature documentary Newville.
Directing
- NewvilleFeature Doc · In Production
- Cycles2024
- Seeds2023
- Handheld2020
- Great Light2017
- Justice for Breonna Taylor2020
Editing
- KinfolkEditor · Co-Producer · In Production
- Nuclear FamilyHBO · 2021
- A Dim ValleyCo-Editor
- The Sunlit NightEditorial · Big Beach
- The Incredible Jessica JamesEditorial · Big Beach
Tony is a director, producer, and editor for television and film. He has produced and edited multiple feature-length films including Sabbatical and A Dim Valley, both by Brandon Colvin and starring Robert Longstreet.
His short film Great Light won the Hammer to Nail online short film contest and was selected for Jim Cummings' inaugural Shorts to Feature Lab. Hailing from Kentucky, he incorporates the real stories of his family into his work, exploring his hometown with love, sensitivity, and a critical eye.
With his wife and filmmaking partner Pisie Hochheim, he co-directed the Vimeo Staff Pick short film Handheld, the award-winning documentary short Cycles, and is currently in production on their debut feature documentary Newville.
Directing
- NewvilleFeature Doc · In Production
- Cycles2024
- Seeds2023
- Handheld2020
- Great Light2017
- Justice for Breonna Taylor2020
Editing
- KinfolkEditor · Co-Producer · In Production
- Jailbreak: Love on the RunNetflix · 2024
- A Dim ValleyEditor · Producer
- SabbaticalEditor · Producer
- ChaseCommercial Editor