Ellen Spiro

Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker. She is a producer and director of a television documentary Are the Kids Alright?, which won an Emmy Award in 2005.[1]

Ellen Spiro
Born
New Brunswick, New Jersey, US
Parent(s)Jack and Marilyn Spiro of New Orleans, Louisiana.

She is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in documentary, experimental film, and music film production in the Department of Radio-TV-Film.[2] She is a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley.[2]

Career

Spiro's work grew out of the AIDS activist movement and tradition of grassroots video activism. Her early work was shot on a compact Sony palmcorder and highlighted gay and lesbian stories.[3] One of her earliest award-winning works, Diana's Hair Ego, was the first small format video to be broadcast on national television.[3]

She created the 10 Under 10 Film Festival in Austin, TX.[4]

In 2006 she was awarded an artist's residency at the Bellagio Center, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, in Bellagio, Italy.[5] 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.[6] It was shortlisted for nomination for an Academy Award in 2007.[7] In December, Body of War was named Best Documentary of 2007 by the National Board of Review.[8]

She was voted one of the "top 10 professors" by students at the University of Texas in 2018.[9]

Films

References
  1. "2005 Lone Star EMMY Awardees | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – Lone Star". Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  2. "Visting Professor – Ellen Rae Spiro from the Dept of Radio-TV-Film at Univ Texas - Department of Film & Media UC Berkeley". filmmedia.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  3. Lebow, Alisa (1993). "Lesbians Make Movies". Cinéaste. 20 (2): 18–23. ISSN 0009-7004. JSTOR 23804414.
  4. 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.
  5. "The Bellagio Center Residency Program". The Rockefeller Foundation. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  6. 2007 Hamptons International Film Festival Awards Archived 2007-10-29 at the Wayback Machine Hamptons International Film Festival official website. Retrieved on 10/29/07.
  7. 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.
  8. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards Archived 2007-12-11 at the Wayback Machine National Board of Review official website. Retrieved on 01/02/08.
  9. "Top 10 Professors at the UT Austin - OneClass Blog". OneClass. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
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