Nancy Schiesari trained as a painter and cinematographer in England and is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London. She is a Director and Producer on both broadcast documentaries and award winning children’s videos. Her latest full-length documentary Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer (see below) aired on PBS Independent Lens, the Australian Broadcast Corporation, and is currently airing on TVOntario. Her award winning children’s video, Mr. Zamboni, won the Silver Apple at the National Education Media Awards in 1999. Nancy also has more than twenty years experience as a Director of Photography on over 30 documentaries and feature films broadcast for England’s Channel 4, BBC in London, ABC, National Geographic, and PBS. Nancy has filmed in Europe, the U.S., Africa, India, Pakistan, Iceland, and Latin America. Nancy is in post production on Behind the Lines: the OSS and the Italian Resistance in WWII and recently completed Tattooed Under Fire with funding and support from LINCS, ITVS, and local PBS station KLRU. She teaches Filmmaking and Cinematography at the University of Texas at Austin where she has been a Professor for twelve years.

Homepage: http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/nschiesari.html

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