Name Tia Lessin | Role Filmmaker | |
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Awards Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary, Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize - U.S. Documentary Nominations Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Movies Trouble the Water, Citizen Koch, Where to Invade Next Similar People Carl Deal, Michael Moore, Kathleen Glynn, Danny Glover, Amir Bar‑Lev |
Sundance 08 meet the filmmaker tia lessin carl deal
Tia Lessin is an American documentary filmmaker.
Contents
- Sundance 08 meet the filmmaker tia lessin carl deal
- Tia lessin co director of citizen koch full interview
- Career
- Awards and recognitions
- Films
- Television
- References

She is the director and producer, along with Carl Deal of Citizen Koch and Trouble the Water. She directed and produced Behind the Labels and co-produced of several of Michael Moore's films including Capitalism: A Love Story, Fahrenheit 9/11 and she was the supervising producer of Bowling for Columbine.

Tia lessin co director of citizen koch full interview
Career

Tia Lessin is producer and director, together with Carl Deal, of the Academy Award-nominated feature documentary Trouble the Water, winner of the Gotham Independent Film Award and the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for best documentary. Tia was a co-producer of Michael Moore’s "Where to Invade Next", Capitalism: A Love Story, Fahrenheit 9/11, winner of the Palme d'Or, and the supervising producer of Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine.

Tia received the Sidney Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism for her documentary Behind the Labels. She line produced Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home: Bob Dylan and was consulting producer for his Living in the Material World: George Harrison. Tia began her career as associate producer of Charles Guggenheim’s Oscar-nominated short film Shadows of Hate.

In television, Tia’s work as producer of the series The Awful Truth earned her two Emmy Award nominations and one arrest.
Tia is a Sundance Institute Fellow, an Open Society Institute Katrina Media Fellow, a Creative Capital grantee and was awarded the Women of Worth “Vision” Award by L’Oréal Paris and Women in Film.