Abigail Disney
출생 : 1960-01-24, Los Angeles, California, USA
약력
Abigail E. Disney is an Emmy-winning director and producer, philanthropist and the CEO and president of Fork Films. An active supporter of peacebuilding, she is passionate about advancing women's roles in the public sphere. Abigail's films and series focus on social issues and spotlight extraordinary people who speak truth to power.
Having grown up in a family of filmmakers, Abigail turned to documentaries when inspired to tell the story of a brave group of women who used nonviolent protests and sex strikes to bring an end to Liberia's long civil war. She and renowned filmmaker Gini Reticker made the widely acclaimed Pray the Devil Back to Hell, which is broadly credited with highlighting the achievements of Leymah Gbowee, who received a Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. Abigail and Gini went on to found Fork Films, which is known for making and funding high profile, critically acclaimed documentaries that are seen on PBS, Netflix, HBO and other major outlets.
In addition to producing original films, Fork Films awards grants to non-fiction films that promote peacebuilding, human rights and social justice with a particular emphasis on projects with women behind or in front of the camera. As of June 2017, Fork Films has awarded over $4 million to 90 documentaries including Cameraperson, Trapped, 1971, The Mask You Live In, Citizen Koch, Hot Girls Wanted, The Invisible War, and Sun Come Up. Fork Films grantees have premiered at top tier film festivals, won major awards and moved the needle on important social issues.
In 2009, Abigail founded Peace is Loud, a nonprofit that inspires action through media and live events that spotlight women leaders on the frontline of peacebuilding worldwide.
Abigail's directorial debut, Emmy-winning The Armor of Light, co-directed by Kathleen Hughes, premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. The film follows Reverend Rob Schenck, an Evangelical minister, and Lucy McBath, the mother of a teenage shooting victim, who ask, is it possible to be both pro-gun and pro-life? Peace is Loud led the outreach and engagement campaign for The Armor of Light to restore a moral, ethical, and theological framework to the conversation about gun violence in America. The campaign has initiated and supported dialogue with faith leaders and communities around the country, reaching out beyond the documentary film community to target dozens of conservative evangelical influencers.
In 2012, along with Pamela Hogan and Gini Reticker, Abigail created and executive produced the first-of-its-kind series for PBS- Women, War, & Peace. The five-part series looked at women in modern war as active agents for peace and positive change makers in their communities. It garnered the Overseas Press Club's Edward R. Murrow Award, a Gracie Award, and a Television Academy Honor. Season II of the series is currently in production.
Abigail is the recipient of numerous awards including an honor by the International Women's Media Foundation for advancing women's issues and peace initiatives; IDA's Amicus Award, The International Advocate for Peace Award, presented by Cardozo Law School; and the Epic Award presented by The White House Project.
Disney received her Bachelor's degree from Yale University, her Master's degree from Stanford University and her Doctorate from Columbia University. She is a mother of four.
Executive Producer
Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.
Executive Producer
격찬을 받은 니나 멩키스 감독의 강연 '섹스와 파워: 시네마의 시각 언어'를 바탕으로 제작된 작품이다. 영화의 미장센이 성적 학대, 성폭행, 여성에 대한 고용 차별과 어떻게 교차해왔는지를 흡인력 있게 고찰한다.
Story
Abigail Disney looks at America's dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less. As a way to imagine a more equitable future, Disney uses her family's story to explore how this systemic injustice took hold.
Self
Abigail Disney looks at America's dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less. As a way to imagine a more equitable future, Disney uses her family's story to explore how this systemic injustice took hold.
Producer
Abigail Disney looks at America's dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less. As a way to imagine a more equitable future, Disney uses her family's story to explore how this systemic injustice took hold.
Director
Abigail Disney looks at America's dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less. As a way to imagine a more equitable future, Disney uses her family's story to explore how this systemic injustice took hold.
Executive Producer
Artist, activist, and single mother, Lydia Emily, defies a crippling diagnosis and unforgiving healthcare system in a film about one woman’s will to survive.
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The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves and the ones they love.
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A rousing portrait of feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, one of the most controversial and misunderstood figures of the 20th century, who fought passionately for justice and equality for women.
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As a wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
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A group of pioneering nuns bravely stand up to the Catholic Church patriarchy, fighting for their livelihoods, convictions and equality against an all-powerful Cardinal. From marching in Selma in 1965 to the Women’s March in 2018, these women have reshaped our society with their bold acts of defiance.
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In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.
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Van Jones navigates increasingly tense and isolating political and racial divides in his attempt to become a “bridge builder” during the Trump administration.
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A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers – this is the story of 25-year-old Reality Winner who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration.
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팔레스타인 라말라 시의 기독교도 시장인 무사 하디드의 두번째 임기 기간에 관한 다큐멘터리.
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Missing in Brooks County follows the journey of two families who have come to Brooks County to look for their loved ones who went missing. As they search for answers, they encounter a haunted land where death is a part of everyday life. A gripping documentary mystery, it is also a deeply humane portrait of the law enforcement agents, human rights workers, and activists who come face to face with the life and death consequences of a broken system.
Executive Producer
할리우드는 트랜스 커뮤니티에 어떤 영향을 끼쳤을까. 그 빛과 그늘을 조명하는 다큐멘터리. 선도적인 트랜스 창작자와 사상가들이 진솔한 견해와 분석을 들려준다.
Executive Producer
In 2016, Stacie is barely scraping by in the small city of Rutland, Vermont. Manufacturing jobs have moved out, the opioid crisis has moved in and the working poor are at their breaking point. Stacie collects bottles to stretch her husband’s unemployment benefits, while she raises her kids and keeps herself off heroin. So when Rutland’s mayor takes the controversial step of accepting 100 Syrian refugees as part of his economic diversification plan, Stacie is torn. With so few jobs and government resources available to the people who already live there, residents begin to split along xenophobic and compassionate lines. Invalidated all her life for her poverty and addiction, Stacie could just as easily succumb to the white rage that crystallizes around her as identify with the intense daily struggles she shares with the incoming refugees. Nuanced and passionate, this fascinating look at a town divided reveals an unlikely hero caught in a flashpoint of Trump’s America.
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꿈에 그리던 영화사에서 보조 직원으로 일하게 된 ‘제인’ 어떤 일도 능숙하게 처리하는 그녀의 일상은 평범해 보이지만, 사소한 사무실 정리부터 상사의 개인적인 스케줄 관리까지 하루 종일 몰아치는 잡다한 업무에 지쳐간다. 그러한 일상이 반복되던 중 어느 날, 신입사원으로 채용된 한 여성이 찾아오면서 회사 내 부조리함을 마주하게 되는데…
Executive Producer
In this timely and fearless personal documentary, director Ofra Bloch engages with the people she was raised to hate and dismiss. Seen as a victim in one context and a perpetrator in the next, the film points towards a future – an “afterward” – that attempts to live with the truths of history in order to make sense of the present.
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Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).
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This film is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled “boys will be boys” culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America. Like many small towns across the country, Steubenville, nestled in a valley in eastern Ohio, lives and dies by its high school football team. So when a teenage girl was sexually assaulted at a pre-season football party in 2012, no one came forward with information. True-crime blogger Alex Goddard set out to uncover the truth, piecing together the details of the crime through cell phone footage and photos that made their way to YouTube, as well as a nearly minute-by-minute account of events on social media. In the process, she uncovered both the perpetrators and the entire culture of complicity that enabled them. The ensuing trial, which made national headlines, cut to the very heart of nationwide debates about rape culture.
Executive Producer
A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress.
Executive Producer
이 다큐멘터리는 오하이오주 스튜번빌 마을을 휩쓴 악명 높은 2012년 강간 사건의 배후를 쫓는다. 미식축구에 열광하는 마을의 파티에서 10대 여성이 성폭행 당하고, 동시에 10대들의 휴대전화에는 문자와 소셜미디어 게시물, 인기 있는 미식축구 선수가 가담한 동영상이 폭발적으로 쏟아진다. 아마추어 범죄 블로거인 알렉스 고더드가 이 충격적인 증거를 공개하면서, 방관자들의 공모에 의문을 던진다.
(2019년 13회 여성인권영화제)
Associate Producer
멜라 B. 그린이 연출하고 조디 포스터가 내레이션을 맡은 '알리스 기-블라쉐 이야기'는 영화사를 다시 쓴 장편 다큐멘터리다. 처음으로 영화 최초의 여성 감독, 시나리오 작가, 프로듀서, 스튜디오 주인 알리스 기-블라쉐의 인생과 작품의 전모를 공개한다.
Co-Executive Producer
A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.
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In 2015, a black, female professor at a prominent Christian college wore a hijab and said that Christians and Muslims worship the Same God. The firestorm that followed exposed the rifts among evangelicals over race, Islam, religious freedom...and Donald Trump.
Executive Producer
사이버 성폭력은 단지 사이버 상에만 존재하는가. 이 다큐멘터리는 세 명의 여성들의 이야기를 좇으며, 사이버 성폭력을 범죄로 여기지 않는 사회적, 제도적 무관심을 고발한다.
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Grassroots activists in the Philippines are spurred into action when a local transgender woman is found dead in a motel room with a 19-year-old U.S. marine as the leading suspect. As they demand answers and a just trial, hidden histories of U.S. colonization come bubbling to the surface.
Executive Producer
성공한 다큐멘터리 감독 제니퍼는 겉보기엔 괜찮은 삶을 살고 있다. 그러나 그녀가 13살이던 당시 승마 코치들과 맺었던 성적 관계에 관해 쓴 이야기가 발견된 후, 그녀의 삶은 뒤흔들린다. 제니퍼는 자신을 피해자로 규정하길 원치 않지만, 수십 년이 지난 끝에 그 여름의 기억과 이야기 속 진실을 찾으려 시도한다. (2018년 제12회 여성인권영화제)
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The remarkable story of Naila Ayesh, who played a key role in the Palestinian uprising known as the First Intifada (1987).
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One woman and her family trek the broken mental health system in an effort to save her brother as he descends into madness. Beginning as a testimony of his sanity, his iPhone video diary ultimately becomes an unfiltered look at the mind of an untreated schizophrenic.
Co-Executive Producer
A short documentary exploring the connection between Christianity and homophobia in the wake of the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
Executive Producer
Iranian musician Shahin Najafi flees his homeland and heads to Cologne, Germany after harsh criticism by several clerics over the release of his song speaking out against human rights abuses resulted in a fatwa being issued.
Co-Executive Producer
남편의 소홀한 태도를 견디지 못한 사라는 어린 딸과 단짝 친구, 민디와 함께 무작정 여행을 떠난다. 여행길에서 사라와 민디 사이의 긴장은 더해만 가고, 여러 상황들로 인해 결국 멀어지게 된다. 몇 년 후, 민디의 결혼식을 며칠 앞두고, 사라는 예전의 친밀했던 관계를 회복하고자 한다.
Co-Executive Producer
하버드의 열정 넘치는 의대생 폴 파머. 그는 봉사활동을 위해 떠난 아이티의 작은 마을 ‘캉주’에서 결핵으로 고통 받으며 죽어가는 사람들의 참혹한 현실에 충격을 받고, 가난한 나라의 소외된 사람들에게도 건강하고 행복할 권리가 주어져야 한다는 신념 하나로 그들 곁에서 치료를 시작한다. 어느 날, 폴 파머는 의료단 봉사 활동에서 자신과 같은 생각을 가진 의대생 김용과 사회운동가 오필리아 달을 만나고 이들은 아이티 ‘캉주’부터 페루, 우간다, 르완다 등 전 세계의 치료 받지 못하는 사람들을 위해 힘을 합치기로 한다. 하지만 이들의 끈질긴 노력에도 불구하고, 현실은 냉혹하기만 한데…
Executive Producer
영국 항공방위 산업체 BAE와 록히드 마틴사에 대한 조사를 통해 세계 최고위층 사이에 무기 거래가 어떻게 이루어지고, 이와 관련된 부정부패가 외교 정책에 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 다룬 다큐멘터리. 나아가, 영화는 무기 거래가 현재 우리가 알고 있는 국제 안보정세와 끊임없이 계속되는 전쟁의 국면을 어떻게 변화시키며, 이 같은 무기들이 우리를 어떻게 공격하고 미래 기술을 얼마나 위협하는지에 대해 경고한다. (2016년 제13회 EBS국제다큐영화제)
Executive Producer
《화씨 9/11》, 《시티즌포》 등 25년간 여성 촬영감독으로 활동해온 크리스틴존슨의 개인적이고 파격적인 회고록으로, 그녀에게 영감이 되었던 빛나는 순간과 현장들을 재구성해 한 편의 아름다운 작품을 만들어냈다. 여성이자 촬영감독으로서의 여행과 작업에서 걸러진 이미지들을 통해 진실과 카메라에 포착된 장면의 틈새, 그 역학관계에 대한 우아하고도 명상적인 질문을 던진다. (2016년 제8회 DMZ국제다큐영화제)
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When 24-year-old Hend Nafea is arrested and tortured for demonstrating peacefully in Cairo's Tahrir Square, her pursuit of justice reflects post-revolution Egypt at an uncertain crossroads.
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부모 곁을 떠나 자유를 찾으려는 소녀들. 생활비와 학비를 벌고 싶은 소녀들. 유명해지고 팬들을 거느리고 싶은 소녀들... 아마추어 포르노 업계에는 하루에도 수십, 아니 수백 명의 어린 지원자가 쏟아진다. 4백 만 클릭을 이끌어내는 비디오의 주인공이 되어 성취감과 유명세를 느끼지만, 정작 그녀들은 폭력적이고 강제적인 섹스의 소모품으로 착취되고 있을 뿐이다. 황폐해가는 몸과 마음을 돌 볼 시간도 없이, 매일매일 쏟아지는 뉴페이스들에게 떠밀려 포르노 업계의 더욱 깊숙한 나락으로 떨어지고 있는 소녀들. 그들을 삶을 밀착 조명한다.
Director
Following the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. Reverend Rob Schenck, anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, breaks with orthodoxy by questioning whether being pro-gun is consistent with being pro-life.
Executive Producer
When director Sharon Shattuck's father came out as transgender, Sharon was in the awkward throes of middle school. As the Shattucks reunite to plan Sharon's wedding, she seeks a deeper understanding of how her parents' marriage, and their family, survived intact.
Co-Producer
A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971.
Co-Executive Producer
미치(얼 린 넬슨)는 최근 별거를 한 절친 콜린(폴 엔훈)을 위해서 아이슬란드행 비행기 티켓 두 장을 끊게 된다. 친구와 함께 노년의 마지막 여행을 하기로 마음 먹은 것. 그리고 대형 자동차까지 빌린 그들은 아이슬란드의 이곳 저곳을 거칠게 여행하기 시작한다. 중간에 조카와 그녀의 친구의 합류. 그리고 떠들석한 나이트 클럽의 밤. 그리고 간헐천과 트래킹까지. 중간에 힘든 순간도 있었지만, 두 명의 노년 친구들은 이제 아이슬란드에서 펼쳐치는 멋진 우정 여행을 펼치려 한다.
Executive Producer
Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American lesbians are violently and sexually threatened by a man on the street. They defend themselves against him and are charged and convicted in the courts and in the media as a 'Gang of Killer Lesbians'.
Executive Producer
This call to arms documentary details the questionable ethics of the food supply industry, pointing out the power of huge supermarket chains to dictate low wages and inhumane labor conditions for farmworkers in the United States.
Executive Producer
어릴 적부터 간병일을 하며 행복함과는 전혀 동떨어진 삶을 살아온 조한나. 그녀는 새로 일하게 된 집에서 집주인의 외손녀 사비타와 그녀의 아버지 켄을 만난다. 일 때문에 시카고로 건너가게 된 켄은 조한나에게 딸 사비타를 잘 부탁한다는 편지를 남기고, 조한나는 예의상 답장을 쓰게 된다. 하지만 사비타와 장난끼 많은 그녀의 친구는 편지를 빼돌려 켄 대신 답장을 쓴다. 달콤하고 설레는 말로 가득한 답장을 받게 된 조한나는 그 동안 잊고 살았던 설렘을 느끼게 되고, 그녀의 무미건조했던 일상은 점차 반짝거리기 시작한다. 켄에 대한 마음을 주체할 수 없게 된 조한나는 모든 것을 정리하고 시카고로 떠나게 되고, 결국 아무 것도 모르고 있는 켄과 마주하게 되는데…
Executive Producer
A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.
Executive Producer
Seeds of Time follows agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler's global journey to save the eroding foundation of our food supply in a new era of climate change.
Co-Executive Producer
Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life-or-death journey seeking high-risk heart surgery in Sudan. Their hearts ravaged by a treatable disease from childhood strep throat, they have only months left to live. Open Heart reveals the intertwined endeavors of Dr. Emmanuel, Rwanda's lone government cardiologist fighting to save the lives of his young patients, and Dr. Gino, the Salam Center's head surgeon, who is fighting to save his hospital, Africa's only link to life-saving free cardiac surgery for the millions who need it.
Co-Executive Producer
경제 위기에 재정적인 어려움을 겪는 백만장자 가족의 이야기를 촬영한 다큐멘터리이다. 셰익스피어의 비극만큼 흥미로운 두 캐릭터는 개천에서 용이 나는 과정을 통해 '아메리칸 드림'의 장단점을 보여준다. 다큐멘터리는 백만장자 가족이 2,500평이나 되는 대궐 같은 집을 건축하는 데에서 시작한다. 2년 후, 이 엄청난 대궐은 부동산 경제의 거품이 빠지면서 골칫덩이가 되고 만다. 그러면서 다양한 문화적 배경을 가진 이 가족과 가사 도우미들의 삶의 방식과 성격도 완전히 달라진다.
Executive Producer
'또 다른 전쟁'은 미국이 가장 수치스러워하며 은폐하고자 하는 문제 중의 하나인 군대 내 성폭력 확산에 관한 획기적인 고발 다큐멘터리이다. 오늘날, 이라크와 아프가니스탄에 주둔하는 여군은 적의 총격에 의해 사망하기보다 동료 군인에 의해 강간당하기 더 쉽다. 몇몇 젊은 여성들의 강력한 실제 사례를 바탕으로 영화는 범죄의 구조적 은폐를 드러내는 한편, 삶을 회복하기 위한 그녀들의 투쟁과 정의를 향한 싸움을 추적한다. '또 다른 전쟁'은 고위 군사장교, 의원들과의 직설적인 인터뷰를 통해 군대 내 강간을 지속시키는 완벽한 조건들, 그 은폐의 역사를 폭로하면서 변화를 위해서 무엇이 선행되어야 하는지를 보여준다.
Executive Producer
For over a century, Carnegie Hall rented affordable studio apartments atop the famous music hall to artistic tenants such as Marlon Brando, Paddy Chayefsky and Isadora Duncan. As a privileged tenant, director Josef Birdman Astor began to videotape his neighbors whose lives intersected with decades of artistic history, but his project changed when the landlord served everyone with eviction notices for a conversion to offices. Astor chronicles the protracted battle to save the apartments and pays homage to their rich heritage.
Executive Producer
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Co-Executive Producer
Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears
Executive Producer
An inside look at polygamist teens who have become religious refugees in mainstream America.
Executive Producer
What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe - and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.
Executive Producer
Chico Colvard interviews family members 30 years after a dirty family secret is revealed. He finds out how his three sisters survived severe abuse at the hands of their father and how they cope as adults.
Co-Executive Producer
Libby Spears goes undercover in southeast Asia to infiltrate the vast network of people involved in human trafficking (specifically, sex slaves), and discovers that not only are a significant number of its victims children, but also that the United States is one of the industry's biggest customers. When she returns home to learn more, she discovers the roles that the educational system and law enforcement have played in keeping the issue off the radar.
Executive Producer
2003년 8월, 이라크에서 유엔 인권 특사가 바그다드 폭탄 테러로 유명을 달리한다. 그의 이름은 세르지우 비에이라 지 멜루. 브라질 외교관으로 시작해 고결한 인도주의로 세상을 밝히기까지, 그의 아름다운 발자취를 따라가 본다.
Producer
Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.
