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'''Nicole Newnham''' is an American [[documentary]] film producer, writer, and director known for the [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-nominated movie ''[[Crip Camp]]'' (2020) which she co-directed and produced with [[James LeBrecht]], and the multiple-[[Emmy Award|Emmy]]-nominated film ''The Rape of Europa''.<ref name="IndieWire 2020">{{cite web | title=Crip Camp Directors Want You To Rethink the Idea of Disability | website=IndieWire | date=2020-03-16 | url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/03/crip-camp-directors-jim-lebrecht-nicole-newnham-documentary-1202217733/ | access-date=2020-08-30}}</ref><ref name="TVGuide.com 2019">{{cite web | title=The Rape Of Europa | website=TVGuide.com | date=2019-05-22 | url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/rape-europa/review/290474 | access-date=2020-08-30}}</ref> With the [[Australia]]n artist/director Lynette Wallworth, she produced the virtual reality work ''[http://www.collisionsvr.com Collisions]'', which won the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary, and ''[http://www.awavenavr.com Awavena]'', which won the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary. Both ''Collisions'' and ''Awavena'' premiered simultaneously at [[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]] and the [[World Economic Forum]] in [[Davos]], and ''Awavena'' was selected for the 2018 Venice Biennale. |
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Newnham's 2013 film ''The Revolutionary Optimists'' was nominated for an Emmy and won the Sundance Hilton Sustainability Award.<ref name="Catapult Film Fund">{{cite web | title=Films - Crip Camp | website=Catapult Film Fund | url=https://catapultfilmfund.org/films/CripCamp/ | access-date=2020-08-30}}</ref> That film also spawned the data-mapping website Map Your World which is an open source data/mapping/storytelling platform.<ref name="The Alliance 2015">{{cite web | title=Map Your World | website=The Alliance | date=2015-09-10 | url=http://www.thealliance.media/profile/map-world/ | access-date=2020-08-30}}</ref> In 2006 she co-directed the Independent Lens / PBS documentary ''Sentenced Home'', also nominated for an Emmy, about three [[Cambodian-Americans|Cambodian-American]] men - raised in the United States - who found themselves eligible to be deported to [[Cambodia]] after [[Terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001|9/11]]. |
Newnham's 2013 film ''The Revolutionary Optimists'' was nominated for an Emmy and won the Sundance Hilton Sustainability Award.<ref name="Catapult Film Fund">{{cite web | title=Films - Crip Camp | website=Catapult Film Fund | url=https://catapultfilmfund.org/films/CripCamp/ | access-date=2020-08-30}}</ref> That film also spawned the data-mapping website Map Your World which is an open source data/mapping/storytelling platform.<ref name="The Alliance 2015">{{cite web | title=Map Your World | website=The Alliance | date=2015-09-10 | url=http://www.thealliance.media/profile/map-world/ | access-date=2020-08-30}}</ref> In 2006 she co-directed the Independent Lens / PBS documentary ''Sentenced Home'', also nominated for an Emmy, about three [[Cambodian-Americans|Cambodian-American]] men - raised in the United States - who found themselves eligible to be deported to [[Cambodia]] after [[Terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001|9/11]]. |
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Nicole Newnham is an American documentary film producer, writer, and director known for the Oscar-nominated movie Crip Camp (2020) which she co-directed and produced with James LeBrecht, and the multiple-Emmy-nominated film The Rape of Europa.[1][2] With the Australian artist/director Lynette Wallworth, she produced the virtual reality work Collisions, which won the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary, and Awavena, which won the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary. Both Collisions and Awavena premiered simultaneously at Sundance and the World Economic Forum in Davos, and Awavena was selected for the 2018 Venice Biennale.
Newnham's 2013 film The Revolutionary Optimists was nominated for an Emmy and won the Sundance Hilton Sustainability Award.[3] That film also spawned the data-mapping website Map Your World which is an open source data/mapping/storytelling platform.[4] In 2006 she co-directed the Independent Lens / PBS documentary Sentenced Home, also nominated for an Emmy, about three Cambodian-American men - raised in the United States - who found themselves eligible to be deported to Cambodia after 9/11.
With Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker, she produced They Drew Fire, about the Combat Artists of WWII, and co-wrote the companion book, distributed by Harper Collins. Her first documentary, Unforgettable Face, screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994.
Personal life
Newnham earned an M.A. from the Stanford Documentary Film Program in 1994.[5] She lives in Oakland, CA with her husband Tom Malarkey, and their two sons.[5]
References
- ^ "Crip Camp Directors Want You To Rethink the Idea of Disability". IndieWire. 2020-03-16. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
- ^ "The Rape Of Europa". TVGuide.com. 2019-05-22. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
- ^ "Films - Crip Camp". Catapult Film Fund. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
- ^ "Map Your World". The Alliance. 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
- ^ a b "Nicole Newnham". The Alliance. 2017-01-06. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
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