Ellen Spiro

 

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Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmakerwho is both a Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellow. Spiro is known for making humorous social issue films for national and international television broadcasts and theatrical release. In 2010 Spiro directed a nationally broadcast NOW on PBS special Fixing the Future with on-camera host David Brancaccio who visits communities across America using innovative approaches to building prosperity in our new economy. In 2007 she released Body of War. Body of War won Best Documentary of 2007 from the National Board of Review and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival where it won an audience award. Spiro and Donahue were featured on a one-hour Bill Moyers Journal special discussing the film. Additionally, Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue received a 2007 nomination for Best Documentary from the Producers Guild of America and were short-listed for an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary

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Ellen Spiro

Born 1968 in New Brunswick.

Awards
Award Ceremony Year Awarded for
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada 2004
Nominated for awards
Award Ceremony Year Nominated for
PGA Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures (Body of War) Producers Guild of America Awards 2007 2008 Body of War
Parents

Jack Spiro, Marilyn Spiro

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Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmakerwho is both a Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellow. Spiro is known for making humorous social issue films for national and international television broadcasts and theatrical release.

In 2010 Spiro directed a nationally broadcast NOW on PBS special Fixing the Future with on-camera host David Brancaccio who visits communities across America using innovative approaches to building prosperity in our new economy.

In 2007 she released Body of War. Body of War won Best Documentary of 2007 from the National Board of Review and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival where it won an audience award. Spiro and Donahue were featured on a one-hour Bill Moyers Journal special discussing the film. Additionally, Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue received a 2007 nomination for Best Documentary from the Producers Guild of America and were short-listed for an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary.

Spiro's other award-winning films have been shown broadcast on television worldwide on PBS, HBO, BBC, CBC and NHK and in the art world, including multiple screenings at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum Biennial exhibition.

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