Laurie Kahn

Director/Producer LAURIE KAHN’s films have won major awards, been shown on PBS primetime, broadcast around the world, and used widely in university classrooms and community groups. Her first film, A Midwife’s Tale, was based on Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Pulitzer Prize-winning book. It won film festival awards and a primetime EMMY for Outstanding Non-Fiction. Her film TUPPERWARE! won the George Foster Peabody Award and was nominated for the primetime EMMY for Nonfiction Directing. Her most recent film, Love Between the Covers, is currently getting glowing reviews on the festival circuit. She is making deals with distributors and also organizing community screenings around the world. In 2000, Laurie produced an award-winning interactive website, DoHistory.org. Before she founded her own production company, she worked on the Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965, The American Experience, FRONTLINE’S Crisis in Central America, and All Things Considered. She is a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University.

Format: Unscripted Features

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States