Heidi Ewing is a director, producer, and writer of documentary films.
She and Rachel Grady founded Loki Films in 2001, and have collaborated
on several documentaries together. She is best known as the
co-director of Jesus Camp, which was nominated for an Academy Award
for best documentary in 2006. Next came 12th & Delaware (HBO), which
premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film "casts a
heart-rending light on the abortion divide" (LA Times) and was honored
with a Peabody Award. Detropia, a poetic look at Ewing's home town,
also won several awards, including Best Editing at Sundance 2012,
Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Original Score, at the 2013
Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking and a News and Documentary
Emmy for editing. Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You was the
opening night selection of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and
premiered on PBS American Masters on October 25, 2016. Other films as
a director include The Boys of Baraka, Freakonomics, and The Education
of Mohammed Hussein.Ewing is a native of the Detroit area and is a
graduate of Mercy High School and the Georgetown School of Foreign
Service.She appeared on Charlie Rose in October 2017, and said that
Hasidic Jews died in the Holocaust because they "refused to blend in".
She later apologized.
She and Rachel Grady founded Loki Films in 2001, and have collaborated
on several documentaries together. She is best known as the
co-director of Jesus Camp, which was nominated for an Academy Award
for best documentary in 2006. Next came 12th & Delaware (HBO), which
premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film "casts a
heart-rending light on the abortion divide" (LA Times) and was honored
with a Peabody Award. Detropia, a poetic look at Ewing's home town,
also won several awards, including Best Editing at Sundance 2012,
Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Original Score, at the 2013
Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking and a News and Documentary
Emmy for editing. Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You was the
opening night selection of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and
premiered on PBS American Masters on October 25, 2016. Other films as
a director include The Boys of Baraka, Freakonomics, and The Education
of Mohammed Hussein.Ewing is a native of the Detroit area and is a
graduate of Mercy High School and the Georgetown School of Foreign
Service.She appeared on Charlie Rose in October 2017, and said that
Hasidic Jews died in the Holocaust because they "refused to blend in".
She later apologized.
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