Cheyenne Picardo

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  • Remedy
    Remedy (2015) Director | Editor | Screenwriter

    REMEDY follows a young woman from the underground kink clubs of New York City into the world of commodified BDSM where workers are paid to embody the sexual and psychological fantasies of complete strangers. ​ What began as a MFA Thesis project became my first feature film, a SAG Feature with worldwide digital and European theatrical distribution. ​ A hybrid of creative biography and narrative fiction, REMEDY is based on true accounts of a pro-switch working in a commercial dungeon in New York City. The film explores the good, the bad, the offensive, the cruel, the hysterical, and the plain weird aspects of BDSM-for-hire. It provides insight without passing judgment, but only as fast as Remedy herself gets the information, and no faster.

  • Bob the Drag Queen: Suspiciously Large Woman
    Bob the Drag Queen: Suspiciously Large Woman (2017) Camera Operator | Director | Editor

    Drag Superstar Bob the Drag Queen arrives purse first and ready to take prisoners in her debut comedy special, Suspiciously Large Woman, fresh off the world premiere at the 2017 Outfest in Los Angeles. No one is safe when the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 8 returns to her hometown of Atlanta after touring the world to hilariously tackle topics such as sex, white people, New York, and the one and only Beyoncé.

  • Street Beatz with Monét X Change
    Street Beatz with Monét X Change (2016) Director | Director of Photography | Editor

    It began with a tagline: "Watch me paint and get into full Drag in the middle of Times Square. Yes, FULL Drag!" The result was four episodes of real NYC magic. We started this series before Monét was on Drag Race. Obviously by the fourth episode, she was a household name.

  • HelloFresh
    HelloFresh Editor

    I worked in the cooking studio as a videographer, studio consultant, and crew director for web content before moving on to post-production where I was a senior freelance editor. I was main editor on TV/OTT commercials, social content, cooking shows, internal videos, recipe how-tos, self- filmed ASMR, and more. ​

  • The Drag Roast of Heklina
    The Drag Roast of Heklina (2018) Director | Editor

    Watch as a panel of legendary drag superstars and comedians grill drag legend Heklina. The Drag Roast of Heklina features a talented dais of roasters including noted LGBTQ celebrities, Alaska Thunderfuck, Jackie Beat, Jinkx Monsoon, Bob the Drag Queen, Sister Roma, Julie Brown, and Peaches Christ.

  • Uranium Derby
    Uranium Derby (2017) Editor | Script Consultant

    Director Britt Prater discovers her hometown was secretly involved in the Manhattan Project. Her investigation into this history triggers a chain reaction of encounters through which it becomes clear that the topic of nuclear waste has been more successfully buried than the waste itself. I was brought in by Britt as a story consultant and finishing editor (in Avid, no less, which at the time was my distant fifth editing language) when she felt too close to the material. This is probably my favorite kind of work, helping other filmmakers make the best version of *their* work. I'm currently working with Britt again, story consulting on her upcoming film about the Iowa Caucus ALL EYES ON IOWA.