Megan Mylan

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Megan Mylan (born December 30, 1969 in California ) is an American documentary filmmaker . They won with Smile Pinki in 2009 the Oscar for Best Short Documentary .

Life

Megan Mylan was born in California and raised in Dallas , Texas . She attended Highland Park High School there and graduated in 1988. She then studied journalism at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and moved to the University of California, Berkeley for her Masters in Journalism and Latin American Studies .

Megan Mylan participated with Terra Weikel , Nina Grotch and Frances Reid in the non-profit production company for documentary films Principe Productions. Her first documentary was Batidania about the African Banda AfroReggae , a drum group from one of the poorest and most notorious favelas in Rio de Janeiro . It followed in 2004 with Jon Shenk From Sudan to Houston, Texas: Lost Boys . The two directors won the Independent Spirit Award and were nominated for an Emmy .

In 2008, Smile Pinki followed , for which Megan Mylan received an Oscar . In 2013, My Little Friends followed through a multigenerational house in Mount Kisco , New York, where small children and seniors with dementia spend the day together, and Raça and Joel Zito Araújo talked about the tensions in Brazil.

In 2014, After My Garden Grows will celebrate its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival . The film is about a young girl in India who plants food for her family on a small roof garden.

Filmography

  • 1997: Batidania
  • 2003: From Sudan to Houston, Texas: Lost Boys of Sudan
  • 2008: Smile Pinki
  • 2013: My Little Friends
  • 2013: Raça
  • 2014: After My Garden Grows

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Judge: Good News From the Real World. Wall Street Journal , May 29, 2009; accessed February 8, 2014 .
  2. ↑ lindsey Bever: Highland Park degree makes mark on Hollywood with documentaries. Dallas Morning News, May 14, 2011, accessed February 8, 2014 .
  3. ↑ About. Principe Productions Official Website, accessed February 8, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b Films. Principe Productions Official Website, accessed February 8, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Mylan, Megan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH California