Podcast #216 – Janice Engel

Janice EngelThis award-winning filmmaker, showrunner and Academy of Art University professor, talks about her documentary film, Raise HELL: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 and won the Audience Award at SXSW, along with numerous other festival awards and screenings in England and Ireland. Raise HELL reflects themes Engel holds dear, speaking truth to power, igniting activism, advocacy and finding our shared humanity. Engel’s work includes non-fiction television specials and films about Jackson Browne and Ted Hawkins, as well as the provocative docuseries, Addicted and the multi-media series, What We Carry, dedicated to preserving Holocaust survivors’ stories. Janice Engel was interviewed by BIO member and podcast producer Jenny Skoog.