Heidi Ewing

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Heidi Ewing 2013.

Heidi Ewing is an American producer and film and television director of documentaries .

Life

Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (right) in 2011 during the Peabody ceremony.

Heidi Ewing comes from Detroit .

In 1997 Heidi Ewing met Rachel Grady on a documentary project on Scientology . The two women decided to run a film production together in New York City . They founded Loki Films , named after a friend's daughter (and not after the Norse god Loki ). You decide together on the materials for your documentation. Together, the partners produced numerous documentaries for television, but also documentaries for the cinema.

At the 2007 Oscars , Heidi Ewing and her business partner Grady were nominated for an Oscar for best documentary for their work on the documentary Jesus Camp . But they had to admit defeat to the film An Inconvenient Truth . In 2007, she and Rachel Grady were also nominated for an Emmy Award for the PBS documentary The Boys of Baraka in the Outstanding International Programming - Long Form category. Gady and Ewing received a Peabody Award in 2010 for the documentary broadcast on HBO 's 12th & Delaware . In 2015 there was another Emmy nomination for the television documentary Women Who Make America in the Outstanding Historical Programming category . With I Carry You With Me , Ewing presented her first feature film at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Heidi Ewing  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography on wetheeconomy.com .
  2. ^ Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady Discuss the Causes and Effects of 'Detropia' (Video) , in: The Hollywood Reporter, August 26, 2012.
  3. ↑ Erin Essenmacher: Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing present a class on directing at Silverdocs , in: Christian Science Monitor of July 5, 2011.
  4. ↑ The 79th Academy Awards | 2007. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Nominees for the 28th Annual News and Documentary & Documentary Emmy Awards in 32 Categories Announced by NATAS , on: Emmy Online July 17, 2007.
  6. ↑ 12th & Delaware (HBO) on the Peabody Awards homepage.
  7. ↑ Nominees for the 36th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards , at: Emmy Online, September 15, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Ewing, Heidi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and film producer of documentaries
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century