Carol Dysinger is an American educator and director, best known for directing '' Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)'', which won both an

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for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2020 and a

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for best short. She teaches at the

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Career

Dysinger began filming on location in Afghanistan in 2005 in what would become her ''Afghan'' trilogy. Her first documentary, ''Camp Victory, Afghanistan'' completed in 2010, documents the struggles of national guard units training an

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. When it premiered at the

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in June 2010, Jim Dwyer of the ''

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'' wrote that the film "crackles with the emotional energy and intelligence of its subjects." Dynsinger's short film on Afghan girls skateboarding in Kabul, '' Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)'', received both a

for best short and an Oscar for best documentary (short subject). Dysinger's 2024 film ''One Bullet'' is her third documentary on Afghanistan and follows the story of a mother grieving her murdered son. The film premiered at DocEdge in Belgium and subsequently won best international documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh. In 2018, Dysinger was awarded a

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for her work on war and story. She currently works as an associate professor of film at

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