Heidi Ewing

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Heidi Ewing
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OccupationDocumentary filmmaker

Heidi Ewing is an American documentary filmmaker and the co-director of Jesus Camp, The Boys of Baraka, 12th & Delaware, DETROPIA, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (Sundance Film Festival), One of Us (Toronto International Film Festival), 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, after a pandemic delay, was released by Sony Pictures Classics in the summer of 2021.

Ewing is currently co-directing a film for HBO 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[1] and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.[2]

She appeared on Charlie Rose in October 2017, and said that Hasidic Jews died in the Holocaust because they "refused to blend in". She later apologized.[3]

Filmography[]

Film Year Subject matter Notes
The Boys of Baraka 2005 Baraka School, Kenya
Jesus Camp 2006 Kids On Fire School of Ministry, Becky Fischer
The Lord's Boot Camp 2008 Teen Missions International Produced and aired for 48 Hours
Freakonomics (segment "Can You Bribe a 9th Grader to Succeed?") 2010 2005 book of the same name
12th & Delaware 2010 A crisis pregnancy center and an abortion clinic in Fort Pierce, Florida
Detropia 2012 Detroit, Michigan [4]
The Education of Mohammad Hussein 2012
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You 2016 Norman Lear
A Dream Preferred 2016 Taharka Bros.
One of Us 2017 Four former members of the Hasidic Jewish community.
I Carry You With Me 2020 Narrative film
Love Fraud 2020 True crime documentary miniseries revolves around Richard Scott Smith, who used the internet to prey upon women in search of love and conned them
Endangered TBA An investigation of threats against journalists in the United States and internationally, from intimidation to physical violence.

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved December 31, 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Q&A with Heidi Ewing. C-SPAN.org. October 28, 2012.
  3. ^ "Director apologizes for Holocaust statement about Hasidic Jews". The Times of Israel. JTA. October 24, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  4. ^ Jenkins, Mark (September 13, 2012). "Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing show Detroit as ghost town in 'Detropia'". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013. Retrieved March 22, 2013.

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