Carol Dysinger

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Carol Dysinger is a professor at New York University and a filmmaker . Your Documentary - Short Learning to skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) won in 2020 the Oscar .

Carol Dysinger is an Assistant Professor in the Cinematography Graduate Program at New York University's Tisch School of Arts .

Life

Dysinger began her career in show business as a stage actress in New York City . The first step in the art of film was editing music videos for The Clash . This was followed by the writing and editing of scripts for various large film studios in Los Angeles .

In 2005 she began touring Afghanistan for her first own full- length documentary . Camp Victory Afghanistan (2010) was the result that was shown in MoMA and Human Rights Watch . Then she made One Bullet Afghanistan, which would become a series of films about life in Afghanistan after 9/11 . Camp Victory dealt with the American mission in the Afghan war and the training of the local military. Her last film from Afghanistan for the time being is the short documentary Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) from 2019. The film won the IDA Award. and at the Oscar ceremony in 2020 with the Oscar for Best Short Documentary Award

She has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation since 2018 and leads workshops at the Sundance Institute .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Three NYU Alumni Nominated for 'Best Picture' at the 2020 Oscars , NYU on January 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Short curriculum vitae on the Guggenheim Foundation website
  3. ↑ Jim Dwyer, War Insight, Beyond 'Bang-Bang' , The New York Times, June 11, 2010.
  4. ↑ Matthew Carey, With 'Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone,' Director Carol Dysinger Crafts A Love Letter To Afghanistan's “Irrepressible Young Girls” , deadline January 20, 2020.
  5. ↑ Oscars 2020 on Oscar.org.
  6. ↑ Carol Dysinger on the homepage of NYU
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SURNAME Dysinger, Carol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century