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Tia Lessin

Réalisateur/trice, Producteur/trice
États-Unis

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Tia Lessin is director and producer of Trouble the Water, her feature debut. Tia also directed and produced the documentary short Behind the Labels in partnership with Peter Gabriel’s human rights group Witness. She was awarded the Sidney Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism for the film about labor trafficking of Chinese and Filipina women garment workers.

Tia was a producer of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, winner of the Palme d’Or, and Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine. Her other film credits include line producer on Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home: Bob Dylan and coordinating producer on The Big One. She began her film career as associate producer of Charles Guggenheim’s Oscar-nominated Shadows of Hate. In television, Tia’s work as producer of the series The Awful Truth, which the Los Angeles Times called « the smartest and funniest show on television, » earned her two Emmy nominations and one arrest.

Tia is a Sundance Institute Fellow, an Open Society Institute Katrina Media Fellow, and was awarded the Women of Worth « Vision » Award by L’Oréal Paris and Women in Film.
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