Serena Violet Hodges is a documentary cinematographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.

Serena has worked on series including 30 for 30 (ESPN), High on the Hog (Netflix), Asian Americans (PBS) and provided cinematography for Academy Award winning film, The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2024), documentary feature, Food & Country (Sundance 2023), and Following Harry (Tribeca 2024) a biography on the legacy of Harry Belafonte.

Serena holds a B.A. in Documentary Production from DePaul University in Chicago. She was a Newport Film Cinematography Fellow in 2022. In 2023, Serena completed a documentary archival research training program conducted and certified through Netflix.

Serena was a Visual Communications Armed with a Camera fellow in 2020. Her first fiction short, Mango Baby, premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Islander Film Festival and Seattle Asian American Film Festival. It was available to watch on Alaska Airlines from October 2023-March 2024.

Serena is a recipient of the Jerome Foundation, Video and Digital production grant (2023) and Minnesota State Arts Board Individual Arts grant (2025) for their documentary, Muncie Didu (WT).