Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker. She is a producer and director of the television documentary Are the Kids Alright?, which won an Emmy Award in 2005.
Career
Her early work was shot on a compact Sony palmcorder and highlighted gay and lesbian stories. One of her earliest works, Diana's Hair Ego, was the first small format video to be broadcast on national television. Her work was presented twice in the Museum of Modern Art.
Spiro created the 10 Under 10 Film Festival in Austin, TX.Lewis, Anne S. Spiro's Experiment: The Austin Film Society Documentary Tour: 10 Under 10 and Its First Five Years. The Austin Chronicle. 2007-5-4.
In 2006, Spiro was awarded an artist's residency at the Bellagio Center, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, in Bellagio, Italy. She worked with Phil Donahue on Body of War, a film about paralyzed Iraq War veteran Tomas Young, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won a 'People's Choice Award' and the 'Audience Award for Best Documentary' at the Hamptons International Film Festival.2007 Hamptons International Film Festival Awards Hamptons International Film Festival official website. Retrieved on 10/29/07. It was shortlisted for nomination for an Academy Award in 2007.Melidonian, Teni. 15 Docs Move Ahead in 2007 Oscar Race Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences official website. 2007-11-19. Retrieved on 2007-12-3. In December, Body of War was named Best Documentary of 2007 by the National Board of Review.National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards National Board of Review official website. Retrieved on 01/02/08.
Spiro is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in documentary, experimental film, and music film production in the Department of Radio-TV-Film. She is also a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
Films Fixing the Future (2010–2012) Body of War (2007) Troop 1500 (2005) Are the Kids Alright? (2003) Atomic Ed and the Black Hole (2002) Roam Sweet Home (1996) Greetings From Out Here (1993) Diana's Hair Ego (1991) Women on the Line: The Effect of Deindustrialization on Women in Buffalo (1988)
References
10. "Author: Ellen Spiro." The Scholar & Feminist Online. Retrieved 6 Mar. 2024.
External links
Ellen Spiro in the Video Data Bank Ellen Spiro at Women Make Movies