VANESSA GOULD is a director, producer and editor based in New York. Gould recently completed OBIT, a feature-length documentary about The New York Times obituaries. OBIT world-premiered at Tribeca and was released in the US by Kino Lorber. OBIT was named "one of the ten best films of 2017" by Entertainment Weekly and Esquire, as well as Critics' Pick by The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.

Gould's previous film Between the Folds premiered on PBS’s Independent Lens in December 2009 and it received a Peabody Award in 2010. Between the Folds has been translated into more than ten languages and broadcast in dozens of countries.

In 2012–2013, she produced and shot for Showtime's Emmy®-winning Years of Living Dangerously. She serves on the jury for the News & Documentary Emmy® Awards, as well as on several festival juries. She studied piano at the New England Conservatory, and art history, architecture and physics at Columbia University.