Ellen Spiro, Associate Professor
For almost two decades, Ellen has pushed the boundaries of the documentary form by creating award-winning and imaginative films, including Diana’s Hair Ego, Greetings From Out Here, Roam Sweet Home, Atomic Ed and the Black Hole, Are the Kids Alright? (with Karen Bernstein), Troop 1500 (with Karen Bernstein), and, now, Body of War (with Phil Donahue).
She has been awarded the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television’s Gracie Award for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Documentary, an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary, and is a two-time recipient of the Rockefeller Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, and a commendation from the Texas State Legislature.
Ellen’s films have been shown in film festivals internationally, broadcast on television worldwide on PBS, HBO, BBC, CBC and NHK and are housed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Peabody Collection of the Museum of Television and Radio and the New York Public Library.
Ellen started Mobilus Media with Karen Bernstein in 2000.
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