Dana Perry (née Heinz) is an American filmmaker. Together with her husband Hart Perry, she operates Perry Films. She won the

Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short film. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announ ...

at the

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for co-producing film '' Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1'' (2013); the win was shared with the film's director and co-producer Ellen Goosenberg Kent. She also directed the

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documentary ''

Boy Interrupted ''Boy Interrupted'' is a 2009 documentary film on the life and death of Evan Perry, who experienced bipolar depression from a young age. When his parents, Dana and Hart Perry, consulted psychiatrists about Evan's suicidal comments or other sig ...

'' (2009), which addressed the 2005 suicide of her 15-year-old son Evan. Other documentaries include '' The Drug Years'' (2006), which won a Stony Award from ''

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'' magazine, '' And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop'' (2004) and ''Rhythm, Country & Blues'' (1994), which explores the relationship between these musical genres.

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