Chelsea Casabona

Chelsea Casabona is a documentary filmmaker and journalist currently based in Colorado. She enjoys telling character-driven stories that explore themes of health, aging, and disability. Chelsea is currently a multimedia journalist for Rocky Mountain PBS.

Chelsea’s independent work as a co-director, cinematographer, and editor on her debut short documentary, METTLE, won her the “Best Student Work” award at the 2024 International Sport Film Festival, a 2024 Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability, and a 2025 Campus Consortium Reporting Fellowship of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Chelsea worked as a cinematographer and editor with the production A World of Difference: Embracing Neurodiversity, a groundbreaking series produced by Beacon College that airs on PBS and is available to stream on the PBS app.

She graduated with honors from the documentary specialization at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2024.