Abigail Disney

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Abigail Disney (2012)

Abigail E. Disney (born January 24, 1960 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American documentary filmmaker , philanthropist and social activist . She produced the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell and is executive producer, writer and director on the documentary The Armor of Light , which received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue.

life and work

Abigail Disney grew up in North Hollywood , California , and completed her studies at the Yale University (BA), the Stanford University (MA) and Columbia University (PhD) from. She is the daughter of Patricia Ann (née Dailey) and Roy E. Disney and the granddaughter of Roy O. Disney , who co-founded the Walt Disney Company with her great-uncle Walt Disney . During her PhD, Disney taught English and American literature at Iona College and wrote a dissertation on the role of romanticized violence in American life.

Abigail E. Disney made a name for herself in the film business with sophisticated documentaries. The first large, self-produced documentary Pay the Devil Back to Hell showed a group of Liberian women who fought for peace in their country with sex strikes. She later received an Emmy Award for The Armor of Light , a play about gun violence in the United States.

As the great-niece of Walt Disney and committed heiress of millions, she criticized the management and management of the Walt Disney Company, which in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, put 220,000 employees on compulsory leave and made themselves bonus payments in the tens of millions and a dividend distribution of 1 , Wanted to pay out $ 5 billion.

Disney married Pierre Norman Hauser in 1988 and has four children. She lives in New York City .

Web links

Commons : Abigail Disney  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Independent Lens Wins Four 2017 News and Documentary Emmys . In: PBS , October 5, 2017. 
  2. ^ The Armor of Light | Tribeca Film Festival . Tribecafilm.com. Archived from the original on October 3, 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  3. ^ The armor of light . Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  4. ↑ Abigail Disney: 'I'm choosing to be a traitor to my class' , Financial Times. July 5, 2019. Accessed July 31, 2019. 
  5. ↑ UCR Newsroom: Award-winning Filmmaker to Speak at UCR . Newsroom.ucr.edu (April 27, 2011). Retrieved March 28, 2012.
  6. ↑ Abigail Disney Isn't Interested In Cinderella Stories . Forbes.com (August 19, 2010). Retrieved March 28, 2012.
  7. ↑ Abigail E. Disney Biography | NAFSA .
  8. ^ Claus Hulverscheidt: Rebellious heiress of millions. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Abigail Disney, Ph.D Candidate, Weds Pierre Norman Hauser 2d at Columbia . NYTimes.com. October 9, 1988. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  10. ↑ NPA 5th Birthday with Abigail Disney . Nationalpeaceacademy.us. March 4, 2014. Archived from the original on November 22, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Disney, Abigail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Disney, Abigail E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American documentary filmmaker, philanthropist, and social activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California