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. 

Filmography


Films by this director

No Ordinary Life

(USA, 2021)

Directed by: Heather O’Neill
PHOTOGRAPHY: Rich Brooks
Synopsis:

 In a field dominated by men, five pioneering camerawomen – Mary Rogers, Cynde Strand, Jane Evans, Maria Fleet and Margaret Moth – went to the frontlines of wars, revolutions and disasters to bring us the truth. As colorful as accomplished, these brave photojournalists made their mark by capturing some of the most iconic images from Tiananmen Square, to conflicts in Sarajevo, Iraq, Somalia and the Arab Spring uprising.  But the world doesn’t know it was these women be...

color, 78′
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