Heidi Ewing
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Heidi Ewing is an American documentary filmmaker and the co-director of Jesus Camp, The Boys of Baraka, 12th & Delaware, DETROPIA, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (Sundance Film Festival), One of Us (Toronto International Film Festival), and the series Love Fraud (Sundance Film Festival).
Ewing's first narrative feature, I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo), had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival where it won the jury and audiences awards in the NEXT section. The film was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards and will be released by Sony Pictures Classics in 2021.
Ewing is currently co-directing a film for HBO on the silencing of journalists around the world.
Biography
Ewing is a native of the Detroit area and is a graduate of Mercy High School[1] and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.[2]
She appeared on Charlie Rose in October 2017, and said that Hasidic Jews died in the Holocaust because they "refused to blend in". She later apologized.[3]
Filmography
| Film | Year | Subject matter | Notes |
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| The Boys of Baraka | 2005 | Baraka School, Kenya | |
| Jesus Camp | 2006 | Kids On Fire School of Ministry, Becky Fischer | |
| The Lord's Boot Camp | 2008 | Teen Missions International | Produced and aired for 48 Hours |
| Freakonomics (segment "Can You Bribe a 9th Grader to Succeed?") | 2010 | 2005 book of the same name | |
| 12th & Delaware | 2010 | A crisis pregnancy center and an abortion clinic in Fort Pierce, Florida | |
| Detropia | 2012 | Detroit, Michigan | [4] |
| The Education of Mohammad Hussein | 2012 | ||
| Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You | 2016 | Norman Lear | |
| A Dream Preferred | 2016 | Taharka Bros. | |
| One of Us | 2017 | Four former members of the Hasidic Jewish community. | |
| I Carry You With Me | 2020 | Narrative film | |
| Love Fraud | 2020 | True crime documentary miniseries revolves around Richard Scott Smith, who used the internet to prey upon women in search of love and conned them | |
| Endangered | 2022 | An investigation of threats against journalists in the United States and internationally, from intimidation to physical violence. |
References
- ^ "September 2012 | Mercy High School". Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
- ^ Q&A with Heidi Ewing. C-SPAN.org. October 28, 2012.
- ^ "Director apologizes for Holocaust statement about Hasidic Jews". The Times of Israel. JTA. October 24, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
- ^ Jenkins, Mark (September 13, 2012). "Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing show Detroit as ghost town in 'Detropia'". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
External links
- Heidi Ewing at IMDb
- "2012 Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady: Detropia". Sundance. Archived from the original on July 25, 2013. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
- "Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady on their Documentary 'Detropia'". August 22, 2012. Holly Reporter. August 22, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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