Tia Lessin

Tia Lessin is a New York-based documentary filmmaker. Tia is the director and producer of Trouble the Water (2008), and producer of several of Michael Moore's films including Capitalism: A Love Story, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine.

Career

Tia Lessin is producer and director of Academy Award nominated feature documentary "Trouble the Water," winner of the Gotham Independent Film Award and the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. Tia was a producer of Michael Moore’s "Fahrenheit 9/11," winner of the Palme d'Or, and of Academy Award -winning "Bowling for Columbine."

In television, Tia’s work as producer of the series "The Awful Truth" earned her two Emmy nominations and one arrest.

Tia received the Sidney Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism.for her documentary short "Behind the Labels." She line produced Martin Scorsese’s "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan" and was associate producer of Charles Guggenheim’s Oscar-nominated short film "Shadows of Hate."

Tia is a Sundance Institute Fellow, an Open Society Institute Katrina Media Fellow, a Creative Capital grantee and was awarded the Women of Worth “Vision” Award by L’Oréal Paris and Women in Film.

Awards and recognitions

• Academy Award nominee, Best Documentary Feature, 2008

• Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival

• Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Full Frame Film Festival

• Winner, Gotham Independent Film Award

• Emmy Award nominee, producer of Outstanding Informational program: long form, 2010

• Emmy Award nominee, Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research, 2010

• Nominee, Producers Guild of America Award, best non fiction producer 2008

• Nominee, NAACP Image Award, 2008

• Council On Foundations Henry Hampton Award for Excellence In Film And Digital Media, 2009

• Harry Chapin Media Award for Film, 2009

• Winner, Sidney Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism

• Women of Worth Vision Award by L'Oréal Paris and Women in Film.

• Emmy Award Nominee, producer of Outstanding Non-Fiction Series, 2000–2001

• Emmy Award Nominee, producer of Outstanding Non-Fiction Series, 1998–1999

• Creative Capital grantee

• Sundance Institute Fellow

• Open Society Institute Katrina Media Fellow

Films

• Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), co-producer
• Trouble the Water (2008), producer & director
• No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005), producer
• Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), producer
• Bowling for Columbine (2002), producer
• Behind the Labels (2001), producer & director
• Shadows of Hate 1995, associate producer

Television

• The Awful Truth (1999, 2000), supervising producer
• TV Nation: Volume One (1997), associate producer

External links

• Trouble the Water Official Site