Tag: filmmaker

Ann Hu’s personal story would make for a great bio pic. Knowing no one, she was among the first students to come to the U.S. from mainland China after the Cultural Revolution to attend college. After graduating from NYU, she made her mark in the business world, but eventually wound…

The recipient of several prestigious honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sundance Screenwriting and Directing Fellowship, Tracy Droz Tragos’ work focuses on issues involving women, inequality, rural America, and education. Her latest film, “The Smartest Kids in the World,” based on the New York Times bestseller, focuses on the…

It’s not often we see a woman’s name next to the title: Head of Development and Production. But that’s exactly what Jessica Harrop does for Sandbox Films, a new mission-driven documentary company. An Emmy-nominated filmmaker in her own right, Jessica has dedicated her career to making movies that…

The power of documentaries to educate, expose, inspire and empower is certainly not lost on filmmaker Nesa Azimi. She has worked on more than a dozen such films while on staff as a producer at Rain Media/PBS Frontline, Al Jazeera America, National Geographic and the Cine Institute of Haiti. DRIVER,…