Katrina Media Fellowships
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Jacqueline Soohen
2006 Filmmaker To create a series of short and long-form documentaries that follow individual Katrina survivors in New Orleans in order to explore a range of racial and economic justice issues such as criminal justice, public housing, and day labor. Soohen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over ten years of experience making social documentaries with an emphasis on global justice. Her films have screened on television and at hundreds of film festivals. Her feature length documentaries include Fallujah (2005) and Shocking and Awful (2005), both of which were featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Fourth World War (2004), This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2002), and Zapatista (1998). As director and co-founder of Big Noise Films and a co-founder of Indymedia, she has pioneered innovative distribution mechanisms—through the Internet and through national and international screening networks. New York, New York | |
