Diretores

A documentary director and producer, Barbara Kopple has dedicated her career to films about important social issues. She won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature twice, for “Harlan County, U.S.A.” (1976, 2nd Mostra), about the coal miners’ strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, and “American Dream” (1990), about meatpacking workers in Minnesota. She founded the New York-based production company Cabin Creek Films, through which she has made most of her projects. She directed, among others, the documentaries “Shut Up and Sing” (2006), “Miss Sharon Jones!” (2015), “Desert One” (2019), and “Gumbo Coalition” (2022). Her films have been screened at festivals such as Toronto, Sundance, and IDFA.