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Hannah Weyer is an American filmmaker living in New York who has written, directed and produced narrative and documentary films. Her films have screened at the Human Rights Watch, Sundance and the New York Film Festivals and have won recognitions, including awards from LoCarno, Sundance, Doubletake Documentary and South by Southwest Film Festivals. Her documentaries aired on PBS as part of the POV-American Documentary series and screenwriting credits include work that has premiered on HBO, including ''Life Support'' (2007), directed by Nelson George, and which earned a Golden Globe award〔http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/?param=/film/26163〕 for its lead actress, Queen Latifah. Most recently, she completed a novel set in Far Rockaway, Queens entitled "On The Come Up"〔)http://www.randomhouse.com/book/225078/on-the-come-up-by-hannah-weyer〕 which was published by Nan Talese/Knoff〔http://www.amazon.com/On-Come-Up-Novel-Based/dp/0385537328〕 in 2013. It received a 2013 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers award and was a NAACP Image Award Nominee for Debut Author. ==Career== Weyer received her Master’s degree in Film from New York University in 1994.〔http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm450.shtml〕 Her short film, The Salesman and Other Adventures〔http://history.sundance.org/films/145〕〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111057/awards?ref_=tt_awd〕 won awards at the Sundance, Locarno, Melbourne, and Claremont-Ferrand Film Festivals. It was broadcast on Canal+ France, Canal+ Spain, Italy's EDB, Channel 4 in England, and here in the US on PBS. In 2000, Weyer produced and directed La Boda,〔http://www.pbs.org/pov/laboda/#.URPb3q6vfF8〕 an hour-long documentary which screened at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and the New York and Los Angeles Latino Film Festivals. La Boda first aired nationally as part of the PBS program, POV-American Documentary, and then again as an "encore performance" during the series’ 2001 line-up. Weyer then went on to complete, La Escuela〔http://www.pbs.org/pov/escuela/〕 which premiered on POV-American Documentary during its 2002 season. La Escuela received Special Jury Prizes from the San Antonio Film Festival and the South by Southwest Film Festival and was awarded the MTV News/Doc Award at the Doubletake Documentary Film Festival.〔http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c573.shtml〕 It was selected by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) as one of 2003’s top 10 Documentaries for Young Adults. Weyer frequently collaborates with writer/director Jim Mckay (Girls Town, Our Song, Everyday People). Along with Mckay she co-wrote the film, ''Angel Rodriguez'' (2005) which premiered on HBO. She also co-wrote the HBO film, ''Life Support'' (2007), directed by Nelson George. For the past 15 years, Hannah has worked with teens in the media arts, volunteering at The Door, Scenarios USA, and Reel Works, and, along with filmmaker Jim McKay started an after school film club at a progressive high school in Brooklyn. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hannah Weyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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