Nicole Newnham is an American documentary film producer, writer, and director known for the

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-nominated movie '' Crip Camp'' (2020) which she co-directed and produced with James LeBrecht, and the multiple-

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-nominated film ''The Rape of Europa''. With the

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n artist/director Lynette Wallworth, she produced the virtual reality work
Collisions
', which won the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary, and
Awavena
', which won the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary. Both ''Collisions'' and ''Awavena'' premiered simultaneously at Sundance and the

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, and ''Awavena'' was selected for the 2018 Venice Biennale. Newnham's 2013 film ''The Revolutionary Optimists'' was nominated for an Emmy and won the Sundance Hilton Sustainability Award. That film also spawned the data-mapping website Map Your World which is an open source data/mapping/storytelling platform. In 2006 she co-directed the Independent Lens / PBS documentary ''Sentenced Home'', also nominated for an Emmy, about three

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men - raised in the United States - who found themselves eligible to be deported to

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after

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. With

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-winning

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Brian Lanker, she produced ''They Drew Fire'', about the Combat Artists of

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, and co-wrote the companion book, distributed by

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. Her first documentary, ''Unforgettable Face'', screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994.

Personal life

Newnham earned an

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from the

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Documentary Film Program in 1994. She lives in

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, CA with her husband Tom Malarkey, and their two sons.

References

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