Ilana Rein started her career as a photographer with her work being widely exhibited and published. After the events of 9/11 she put aside still photography to make films.

Periphery, Rein's first documentary, a film about the post 9/11, Bush Era US (as told through personal narratives of New Yorkers) was an official selection of the Lincoln Center New York Video Festival (now called Views from the Avant Garde) in 2002. Subsequent films have been screened at various galleries including A.I.R and Participant in NYC.

Rein’s film We Are All Cylons had its World Premiere at the Apollo Theater as part of the Sci-Fi London Film Festival in April, 2011. It has been selected for several other screenings and won Best Documentary Short at The Arizona Underground Film Festival. Rein’s work has been featured in numerous publications including Doubletake, Scientific American, 9/9 Paris, Art in America and Wired.
For the past year she has been writing her screenplay
Alignment Project while living in the remote Arizona desert.

Please see ilanarein.net for more details, links and films.