Heidi Ewing is an American documentary filmmaker and the co-director of ''
Jesus Camp'', ''
The Boys of Baraka
''The Boys of Baraka'' is a 2005 documentary film produced and directed by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. The documentary follows twenty boys from Baltimore, Maryland who spend their seventh and eighth grade years at a rural boarding s ...
'', ''
12th & Delaware'', ''
DETROPIA'', ''Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You'' (
Sundance Film Festival
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), ''
One of Us
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'' (
Toronto International Film Festival
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), and the series ''Love Fraud'' (Sundance Film Festival).
Ewing's first narrative feature, ''
I Carry You With Me'' (''Te Llevo Conmigo''), had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival where it won the jury and audiences awards in the NEXT section. The film was nominated for two Independent
Spirit Awards and will be released by
Sony Pictures Classics
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in 2021.
Ewing is currently co-directing a film for
HBO on the silencing of journalists around the world.
Biography
Ewing is a native of the Detroit area and is a graduate of
Mercy High School and the
Georgetown School of Foreign Service.
She appeared on ''
Charlie Rose
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Rose also co- ...
'' in October 2017, and said that
Hasidic Jews died in the Holocaust because they "refused to blend in". She later apologized.
Filmography
References
External links
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C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Heidi Ewing, October 28, 2012
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Farmington Hills, Michigan
American documentary filmmakers
Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni
Film directors from Michigan
American women documentary filmmakers
Sundance Film Festival award winners
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