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Ellen Spiro is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor American born on 1968 at New Brunswick (Canada)

Ellen Spiro

Ellen Spiro
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Nationality USA
Birth 1968 (56 years) at New Brunswick (Canada)
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship

Ellen Spiro (born 1968) is an American documentary filmmaker. 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 (co-directed and co-produced with Phil Donahue). 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.

Spiro was awarded The Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television’s Gracie Award for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Documentary for Troop 1500, and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a commendation from the Texas State Legislature (Senate Resolution 545) and is a two-time Rockefeller Fellowship recipient. Her works are housed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Peabody Collection of The Paley Center for Media and the New York Public Library.
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Filmography of Ellen Spiro (7 films)

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Director

Body of War
Body of War (2007)

Directed by Ellen Spiro
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about health care, Films about disabilities, Political films
Rating77% 3.8806753.8806753.8806753.8806753.880675
Après les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, Tomas Young devient soldat parce qu'il veut défendre son pays contre le terrorisme. Bientôt il se retrouve à la guerre d'Irak ou il perd sa santé. Désabusé, sérieusement handicapé, il retourne aux États-Unis et se demande s'il n'a pas été trompé par la propagande.
Greetings from Out Here
Greetings from Out Here (1993)

Directed by Ellen Spiro
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Road movies, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film

On her journey, filmmaker Ellen Spiro visits memorable landmarks, events and characters, including Mardi Gras, Gay Pride in Atlanta, the Gay rodeo, Dollywood, Miss Miller's Eternal Love and Care Pet Cemetery, and the Short Mountain Radical Faerie sanctuary.

Scriptwriter

Body of War
Body of War (2007)

Directed by Ellen Spiro
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about health care, Films about disabilities, Political films
Rating77% 3.8806753.8806753.8806753.8806753.880675
Après les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, Tomas Young devient soldat parce qu'il veut défendre son pays contre le terrorisme. Bientôt il se retrouve à la guerre d'Irak ou il perd sa santé. Désabusé, sérieusement handicapé, il retourne aux États-Unis et se demande s'il n'a pas été trompé par la propagande.

Production

Body of War
Body of War (2007)

Directed by Ellen Spiro
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about health care, Films about disabilities, Political films
Roles Producer
Rating77% 3.8806753.8806753.8806753.8806753.880675
Après les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, Tomas Young devient soldat parce qu'il veut défendre son pays contre le terrorisme. Bientôt il se retrouve à la guerre d'Irak ou il perd sa santé. Désabusé, sérieusement handicapé, il retourne aux États-Unis et se demande s'il n'a pas été trompé par la propagande.
Greetings from Out Here
Greetings from Out Here (1993)

Directed by Ellen Spiro
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Road movies, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Roles Producer

On her journey, filmmaker Ellen Spiro visits memorable landmarks, events and characters, including Mardi Gras, Gay Pride in Atlanta, the Gay rodeo, Dollywood, Miss Miller's Eternal Love and Care Pet Cemetery, and the Short Mountain Radical Faerie sanctuary.