Heidi Ewing is an American documentary filmmaker and the co-director of ''
Jesus Camp
''Jesus Camp'' is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing about a charismatic Christian summer camp, where children spend their summers being taught that they have "prophetic gifts" and can "take back America for ...
'', ''
The Boys of Baraka'', ''
12th & Delaware'', ''
DETROPIA
''Detropia'' is a 2012 American documentary film, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, about the city of Detroit, Michigan. It focuses on the decline of the economy of Detroit due to long-term changes in the automobile industry, and the effec ...
'', ''Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You'' (
Sundance Film Festival
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), ''
One of Us'' (
Toronto International Film Festival
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), 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
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in 2021.
Ewing is currently co-directing a film for
HBO
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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 and the
Georgetown School of Foreign Service
The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It is considered to be one of the world's leading international affairs schools, granting degrees at both ...
.
She appeared on ''
Charlie Rose
Charles Peete Rose Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American former television journalist and talk show host. From 1991 to 2017, he was the host and executive producer of the talk show '' Charlie Rose'' on PBS and Bloomberg LP.
Rose also co-an ...
'' in October 2017, and said that
Hasidic Jews
Hasidism, sometimes spelled Chassidism, and also known as Hasidic Judaism (Ashkenazi Hebrew: חסידות ''Ḥăsīdus'', ; originally, "piety"), is a Jewish religious group that arose as a spiritual revival movement in the territory of contem ...
died in the Holocaust because they "refused to blend in". She later apologized.
Filmography
References
External links
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C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Heidi Ewing, October 28, 2012
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Farmington Hills, Michigan
American documentary filmmakers
Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni
Film directors from Michigan
American women documentary filmmakers
Sundance Film Festival award winners
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