Her directorial debut, The Heart Of The Matter, received the Sundance Freedom of Expression Award. Gini Reticker is an Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker. Disney's directorial debut, The Armor of Light, was selected for the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Disney is an award-winning filmmaker, philanthropist and the CEO and president of Fork Films. DISNEY & GINI RETICKER (Co-Executive Producers) Abigail E. He wrote and directed his new film, Secret In Their Eyes, starring Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, and Chiwetel Ejio for IM Global and STX.ĪBIGAIL E. She recently directed a feature The Break Up Girl, which was released by Gravitas Ventures.īILLY RAY (Executive Producer) is the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Captain Phillips co-wrote The Hunger Games and State Of Play, and wrote and directed Shattered Glass and Breach. Stacy was Associate Producer of Chasing Ice, a documentary, which won the Emmy in 2014. STACY SHERMAN (Executive Producer) was nominated for an Academy Award for God Sleeps In Rwanda (2005), a documentary short, which received the Emmy. Recently she executive produced Award- winning documentary Keep On Keepin On. Her films include two with JJ Abrams - Taking Care of Business and Gone Fishin. JILL MAZURSKY (Executive Producer) is a screenwriter, film producer, and director. Nancy Nordhoff is the founder of Hedgebrook, a residency that supports women writers. She and artist Lynn Hays work to empower women, support rural communities, and promote environmentalism. NANCY NORDHOFF & LYNN HAYS (Executive Producers) Nancy Nordhoff is American philanthropist and environmentalist. She divides her time between London and Los Angeles. Bogart has written for W magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Women’s Wear Daily, and ElleDecor. She has produced and directed programming for both French and English-based broadcasters, including the long-running pop culture magazine “Eurotrash” in the U.K. ANNE BOGART (Director, Producer) has filmed around the world for the PBS travel series “Globe Trekker” for 12 years. Morris a longtime presenter for the internationally broadcast series Globe Trekker. Her story the subculture of illegal 'Stalkers' inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was originally published in Slate. She’s the author of Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine (Random House), a New York Times Notable book about exploration. Her award-winning journalism on the Babushkas of Chernobyl (2011), published as The Women Living in Chernobyl's Toxic Wasteland and The Best Travel Writing (Travelers Tales) first reported on the women of the Zone and is also the subject of her popular TED Talk. HOLLY MORRIS (Director, Producer) makes films that explore the lives of risk-taking, contemporary women around the globe including, Behind Closed Chad-ors (Iran), Holy Cow (India), Mana Wahines (New Zealand) and Paradox Found (Cuba) - all broadcast on PBS, and internationally, as part of her Adventure Divas documentary series. Like the wolves, moose, wild boar and other wildlife not seen for decades that have come back to the abandoned forests around Chernobyl, the women of the Exclusion Zone, too, have an extraordinary story of survival, and offer a dark yet strangely affirming portrait of life post-apocalypse. That stark choice reveals an incredible journey the women have traveled: from Stalin’s enforced famines in the 1930s, through Nazi occupation, to nuclear disaster. “Starvation is what scares me, not radiation,” she says. Why do they insist on living on farms that the Ukrainian government and radiation scientists have deemed uninhabitable? How do they manage to get by, isolated, in an abandoned landscape guarded by soldiers, and rife with wild animals? How has the radiation affected them these past 3 decades?Īt her cottage, Hanna Zavorotyna brews homemade moonshine and slices thick chunks of salo, raw pig fat - though it is strictly forbidden to eat local food. 30 years after the Chernobyl disaster, some 100 women fiercely cling to their ancestral homeland inside the radioactive “Exclusion Zone.” While most of their neighbors have long since fled and their husbands have gradually died off, this stubborn sisterhood is hanging on - even, oddly, thriving - while trying to cultivate an existence on toxic earth.
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