Laura Checkoway
Laura Checkoway is an Oscar and Emmy nominated filmmaker known for intimate character-driven stories. Laura directed The Cave of Adullam, produced by Laurence Fishburne, which premiered at Tribeca in 2022 winning Best Documentary Feature and the Audience Award and was released by ESPN Films. Her breakthrough film Edith+Eddie received an Academy Award nomination and Emmy nomination in 2018 and won numerous awards including the IDA Documentary Awards Best Short. Executive produced by Steve James and Cher, it's a wrenching love story that sent a warning cry about elder rights and impacted policy makers at screenings from Capitol Hill to the World Congress on Guardianship in Seoul. A short doc series that Laura produced with PBS was nominated for two Emmys in 2020. She received NYWIFT’s Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking Award in 2022. She was series director of We Were Here, an original documentary series reframing perceptions about refugees (executive produced by Alma Har’el) which won the people’s choice award at the Webby Awards in 2024. Spanning several years with a young homeless mother masked in tattoos, Laura’s award-winning debut doc Lucky screened across the globe and premiered on television in 2014. With a background in journalism, Laura wrote for many publications and co-authored acclaimed books including My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy which the Ringer described as "one of the best music autobiographies ever."
