Dana Perry

Dana Perry (and Dana Heinz Perry and Dana Heinz ) is an American director and film producer of television series and documentaries , which at the Academy Awards in 2015 for the production of the documentary - short film Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 together with director Ellen Goose Mountain Kent the Oscar in in the Best Documentary Short Film category . The film shows the work of the Crisis Intervention - hotline of the American War Veterans Ministry for suicidal war veterans . During her acceptance speech, Perry said that her own son had killed himself with bipolar disorder and that she wanted to raise awareness of the subject with the film. She had already addressed her son's suicide in the documentary Boy Interrupted (2009).

Together with her husband Hart Perry , Dana Perry runs the film production company Perryfilms . The couple live and work in New York City .

Filmography

• 1996: VH1 Presents the 70's (TV miniseries, director)
• 1998: Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson (TV film, director, editor, producer)
• 1998: Motown 40: The Music Is Forever (TV movie, producer)
• 1999: Paramedics (TV series, producer, video journalist)
• 2004: And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (TV miniseries, director, producer)
• 2006: The Drug Years (TV miniseries, director, producer)
• 2008: Sex: The Revolution (TV miniseries)
• 2009: Boy Interrupted (director, producer)
• 2010: Top Ten Monks (director, producer)
• 2013: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 (producer)

Web links

• Dana Perry at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website of Perryfilms

Individual evidence

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