Heather O’Neill
An Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. No Ordinary Life, her directorial debut on a feature documentary film, premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. For the Discovery Channel, she traveled to Bikini Atoll to direct and produce a shark conservation special with Philippe Cousteau Jr. She also produced the feature documentary Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi, which screened at festivals around the world. With CNN Presents she directed and produced dozens of documentaries. For over a decade she spearheaded projects for CNN around the world, from melting glaciers in Greenland, to conflicts across the Middle East, to the danger journalists face covering the drug trade in Mexico.
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