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3 unusual facts about Ellen Spiro


Ellen Spiro

After teaching for a year she embarked on her second year-long solo road trip (this time in a vintage Airstream trailer), to make Roam Sweet Home, funded by Channel Four in the UK and ITVS.

Tomas Young

Body of War is a documentary directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue which follows Young as he adapts to his paralyzed body and questions his motives to enlist in the army.

Troop 1500

For more than five years, filmmaker Ellen Spiro worked with the leaders and girls of Troop 1500, the “prison troop,” as a volunteer and mentor.


Diana's Hair Ego

While documenting an AIDS quarantine controversy in South Carolina with DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activist TV), filmmaker Ellen Spiro met DiAna DiAna, a local hairdresser who transformed her beauty parlor into a center for AIDS and safe sex information.


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