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Tenth Annual Festival

11:14 min
Documentary
Director: Jonathan Skurnik
Producer: Jonathan Skurnik

Winner of the Changemaker Award

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Jonathan Skurnik, Director and Producer

Jonathan has produced, directed and shot numerous award-winning documentaries and has recently completed his first two fiction films as writer/director.

His most recent documentaries include, Something’s Moving, about American Indian boarding schools, that won the Unspoken Truth award at the eighth annual Media That Matters; The Elevator Operator, about an Ukrainian immigrant who runs a manual elevator in Manhattan, has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, won Best Documentary at the Urban TV film festival in Madrid and had its broadcast premiere on PBS and Ukrainian TV; the award-winning Spit It Out, the life story of a man who stutters, was broadcast on PBS in 2007; and A Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay, about welfare reform, won the prestigious Harry Chapin Award for films about hunger and poverty and was broadcast on PBS and in Europe in 2002.

Jonathan is currently directing a series of films about transgender and gender fluid youth.