SFFS Documentary Film Fund Winner: Untitled 1971
dir/prod Johanna Hamilton
$20,000 for postproduction, 2012
THE FILM
Hamilton continues her exploration of social movements and the limits of dissent, this time turning her lens to domestic contradictions in North America.
THE FILMMAKER
Johanna Hamilton has produced and directed documentaries for 15 years. Most recently she co-produced Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a feature-length documentary about the women’s peace movement in Liberia. It premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival where it won the Best Documentary Film Award and was short-listed for an Academy Award. Since then it has toured at festivals around the world and continued to win awards. It has also been shown at hundreds of grassroots screenings internationally.
Ms. Hamilton has produced non-fiction programs for PBS, The History Channel, National Geographic, A&E, BBC, Discovery Channel and The Washington Post/Newsweek Productions, including September’s Children, a documentary for PBS exploring how children around the world are affected by terrorism and war.
She worked on a New York Times television special with columnist Tom Friedman about U.S. – European relations post 9/11 for the Discovery and Discovery Times channels, and on Wings of Madness, a NOVA for PBS, about Alberto Santos-Dumont, a pioneer aviator. Wings of Madness was an international co-production with France 5 and TV Globo in Brazil. And she contributed to the Frontline/American Experience The Mormons, producing select parts on location in Africa.
$20,000 for postproduction, 2012
THE FILM
Hamilton continues her exploration of social movements and the limits of dissent, this time turning her lens to domestic contradictions in North America.
THE FILMMAKER
Johanna Hamilton has produced and directed documentaries for 15 years. Most recently she co-produced Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a feature-length documentary about the women’s peace movement in Liberia. It premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival where it won the Best Documentary Film Award and was short-listed for an Academy Award. Since then it has toured at festivals around the world and continued to win awards. It has also been shown at hundreds of grassroots screenings internationally.
Ms. Hamilton has produced non-fiction programs for PBS, The History Channel, National Geographic, A&E, BBC, Discovery Channel and The Washington Post/Newsweek Productions, including September’s Children, a documentary for PBS exploring how children around the world are affected by terrorism and war.
She worked on a New York Times television special with columnist Tom Friedman about U.S. – European relations post 9/11 for the Discovery and Discovery Times channels, and on Wings of Madness, a NOVA for PBS, about Alberto Santos-Dumont, a pioneer aviator. Wings of Madness was an international co-production with France 5 and TV Globo in Brazil. And she contributed to the Frontline/American Experience The Mormons, producing select parts on location in Africa.