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Ewing is a native of the Detroit area. She was introduced to film by her father who encouraged her and her siblings to watch Fellini films at a young age. But it was her exposure to Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" at the age of ten that had the greatest impact. "It blew my mind into thousands of pieces,
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Ewing made her narrative debut in 2020 with "I Carry You With Me," a love story based on her two close friends, Ivan and Gerardo, who had emigrated to the United States from a conservative town in Mexico. The film began as a documentary, but over the course of the process Ewing realized it was best
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Her first feature-length documentary, "The Boys of Baraka," was co-directed with Rachel Grady. The film, made with ITVS, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival and was release theatrically by ThinkFilm before airing on PBS. The film follows a group of 12-year-old boys from Baltimore who
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In 2011 she returned to her native Detroit to make "DETROPIA," an impressionistic documentary that focuses on the challenges of a shrinking city and those who refuse to give up on it. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and won the editing award
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presented as a narrative film with non-fiction elements woven through. The film made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival where it won the jury and audiences awards in the festival's NEXT section. The film was nominated for two Independent
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Her first film as a director was the short "Dissident: Oswaldo Paya and The Varela Project," a short film financed by the National Democratic Institute about the now deceased activist and his efforts to push for human rights in Cuba.
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In 2017 she co-directed Netflix Original film, "One of Us," which follows three Hasidic Jews who attempt to leave the insular community and pursue a secular life. The film premiered at the 2017
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In 2006 she and Grady released "Jesus Camp," which premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures. The film was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award.
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An investigation of threats against journalists in the United States and internationally, from intimidation to physical violence.
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and I couldn't stop going back to see it over and over again," she says. "I didn't know something could be so potent."
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died disproportionally in the Holocaust because they "refused to blend in". She later apologized.
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and then attended and graduated from the Georgetown University.
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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leave home for an experimental middle school in rural Kenya.
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In 2001 she and Rachel Grady founded Loki Films in New York.
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is an American documentary filmmaker and the co-director of
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Ewing recently co-directed "Endangered," a film for
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Four former members of the Hasidic Jewish community.
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Sundance Film Festival
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12th & Delaware
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One of Us
I Carry You With Me
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Toronto International Film Festival
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