Years active 1990s—present Name Maggie Hadleigh-West | Role Filmmaker | |
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Occupation Documentarian, Activist, Television Producer Movies Player Hating: A Love Story, War Zone Parents Frederick Hadleigh West, Katherine Talbot Siblings Dickson Hadleigh-West, Fred Jr. Hadleigh-West Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
Half a mill documentary player hating a love story interview with director maggie hadleigh west
Maggie Hadleigh-West (born October 1, 1958) is an American filmmaker and activist.
Contents
- Half a mill documentary player hating a love story interview with director maggie hadleigh west
- Half a mill player hating a love story doc by maggie hadleigh west
- Early life and education
- Film and television career
- Filmography
- References
Half a mill player hating a love story doc by maggie hadleigh west
Early life and education
Hadleigh-West was born in Fairbanks, Alaska to parents; Katherine Talbot a legal secretary and Frederick Hadleigh West a college professor in Archeology and Anthropology, both of whom grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a child, she was influenced by 1960s radical politics and economic injustice. After the divorce of her parents in 1970, her mother moved with Hadleigh-West and her two brothers Fred Jr. and Dickson to Edina, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. In high school, Hadleigh-West first picked up a camera, intending to videotape her good friend Joanne Liebeler in character as a gypsy in downtown Minneapolis. While shooting she became distracted by a pimp in full 1970’s regalia, a moment in her development she believes pointed directly to her film Player Hating: A Love Story.
In 1984, Hadleigh-West enrolled at George Washington University where she majored in Visual Communications. For the next ten years, Hadleigh-West worked as a Graphic Designer/Art Director, and later attended graduate school at School of the Visual Arts in New York City where she got her masters in Fine Art. Her thesis was an experimental documentary short titled War Zone (1991, 13 min.) which she later expanded into a feature and launched her career as a filmmaker.
Her latest film is Player Hating: A Love Story which chronicles Brooklyn rapper Half-A-Mil in his journey from obscurity to celebrity inside one of America's most dangerous housing projects.
Film and television career
Hadeigh-West's thesis garnered a story in Glamour Magazine which led to a media bilzt and the creation of her own company, Film Fatale Productions. Film Fatale's goal is to expose and explore the manifestations of prejudice and oppression in marginalized communities throughout the United States and abroad.
Clients have included: Department of Defense, Department of Justice, the Smithsonian Museum, Williams College, Middlebury College, the Juilliard School, University of California at Berkeley, Albright College, Boys and Girls Club of America, juvenile prisons, alternative detention centers, among other clients.
Hadeigh-West has also produced television segments for Lifetime Live, Dateline NBC, Split Screen, and SexTV in Canada.