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Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Rebecca Cammisa’s latest work
is “Atomic Homefront,” a film about the effects of radioactive waste
stored in West Lake Landfill in St. Louis County, Missouri, and
featuring Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs. “Atomic Homefront,” now
streaming on HBO, has received numerous grants, including a Sundance
Documentary Fund Production grant and a MacArthur Foundation Media
grant.
Cammisa’s first feature documentary film, “Sister Helen” won the 2002
Sundance Film Festival’s Documentary Directing Award, as well as an
Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming and an
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Film Award nomination
by the Directors Guild of America.
In 2003, Cammisa founded Documentress Films, teamed up with Mr. Mudd
Productions, and began developing the 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary,
“Which Way Home” for which she received a Fulbright Fellowship for
Filmmaking. “Which Way Home” was nominated for a 2010 Independent Spirit
Award for Best Documentary, received four Emmy nominations, and went on
to win a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding
Informational Programming and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
Grand Prize.
Cammisa was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for
Filmmaking, and in 2011, she directed and produced the HBO documentary,
“God is the Bigger Elvis,” which received an Oscar nomination for Best
Documentary Short Subject.
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