Betsy West

약력

Betsy West is an Academy Award®-nominated Emmy winning director/producer of RBG (2018), along with Julie Cohen. She and Cohen recently directed the new documentaries Julia (2021), and My Name is Pauli Murray (2021). As a producer at ABC News, Betsy won 21 Emmy Awards. She is the Fred W. Friendly Professor Emerita at Columbia Journalism School.

참여 작품

The Picture Taker
Editorial Consultant
From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by decades of secret FBI service revealed only after his death. Was he a friend of the civil rights community, or enemy—or both?
Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down
Director
The extraordinary story of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords: her relentless fight to recover following an assassination attempt in 2011, and her new life as one of the most effective activists in the battle against gun violence.
Julia
Producer
Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.
Julia
Director
Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.
마이 네임 이즈 폴리 머레이
Director
역사 속에서 조명받지 못한 법조계의 선구자, 폴리 머리의 생각은 성 평등을 위한 루스 베이더 긴즈버그의 투쟁과 서굿 마셜의 인권 논의에 영향을 주었다. 이 다큐멘터리는 변호사이자 운동가, 시인, 그리고 사제였던 폴리 머리가 논바이너리 흑인 권위자로서 남긴 영향을 상세히 그려낸다.
On Broadway
Executive Producer
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen—including Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin lead the way on a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business in this documentary directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.
Remembering RBG: A Nation Ugly Cries
Self
“Remembering RBG: A Nation Ugly Cries with Desi Lydic” follows Lydic on a journey through the five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and… what's the opposite of the acceptance? —as she comes to terms with the passing of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and where to go from here.
Give My Regards to Broadway
Executive Producer
John Lithgow, Christine Baranski, Brian Stokes Mitchell and other Broadway stars on how the Broadway community has responded to COVID-19, finding creative ways to perform during the shutdown and how the pandemic could change show business.
라벤더 스케어
Executive Producer
미국이 냉전의 공황에 휩싸인 가운데 드와이트 D 대통령. 아이젠하워는 동성애자를 "안보 위험"으로 간주하여 동성애자로 판명된 공무원을 즉시 해고할 것을 명령한다. 이는 40년 동안 지속되는 악랄한 마녀사냥의 시작이 되지만, 이에 맞서 싸우는 이들이 역시 나타난다.
루스 베이더 긴즈버그: 나는 반대한다
Producer
60살에 미연방 대법관이 된 루스 베이더 긴즈버그. 하버드 로스쿨에서부터 모두가 인정하는 뛰어난 재원이었지만 그녀의 삶은 차별에 맞선 일대기였다. 법을 통해 불평등한 세상을 반대로 바꾸며 시대의 아이콘이 된 그녀의 감동스토리가 시작된다.
루스 베이더 긴즈버그: 나는 반대한다
Director
60살에 미연방 대법관이 된 루스 베이더 긴즈버그. 하버드 로스쿨에서부터 모두가 인정하는 뛰어난 재원이었지만 그녀의 삶은 차별에 맞선 일대기였다. 법을 통해 불평등한 세상을 반대로 바꾸며 시대의 아이콘이 된 그녀의 감동스토리가 시작된다.