JUDITH HELFAND, Producer
Judith is best known for her ability to take the dark, cynical worlds of chemical exposure, heedless corporate behavior and environmental injustice and make them personal, resonant, highly charged and entertaining. Her award-winning films include The Uprising of 34 (co-directed with George Stoney), Blue Vinyl (co-directed with Danial B. Gold), its Peabody-Award-winning prequel A Healthy Baby Girl and Everything’s Cool. Teacher (including NYU’s Undergraduate Film Program and The Nelson Inst. for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison), educator, “field-explorer” and activist, Judith is co-founder of Working Films, a leader in linking non-fiction filmmaking to cutting edge activism and Chicken & Egg Pictures, a hybrid foundation that supports women filmmakers with strategically timed funding and “hands-with” mentorship.
In November 2007 Helfand was awarded a United States Artist Fellowship grant, one of fifty awarded to “America’s finest living artists” to nurture, support, and strengthen her work. She is currently in production on Cooked, a feature documentary that starts off as an exploration of the 1995 Chicago Heatwave and evolves into a story about the politics of disaster.
