Maria finitzo biography

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Maria Finitzo is a three-time Peabody Award-winning filmmaker who has won every major broadcast award including most recently the Alfred E duPont Award.
American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer Maria Finitzo studied radio, television, and film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and screenwriting at.

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DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Maria Finitzo is a two-time Peabody Award-winning social issue documentary filmmaker whose 30 years as a filmmaker has resulted in a body of work that has won every major broadcast award including most recently the Alfred E duPont Award and has been screened in festivals and theaters around the world. Her films are novelistic in their structure, providing multiple points of connection for an audience. She allows the narrative arc of her character’s story to evolve, colliding with other subjects from the film, creating a complex, nuanced story that serves as a vehicle to deepen our understanding of society through everyday human drama.

A coming of age story that reveals the resilience of adolescent girls (5 GIRLS), a father determined to heal his daughter after a tragic accident (MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: TERRA INCOGNITA) investigates the role of science in a democratic society, a young man, leaving foster care (WITH NO DIRECTION HOME) explores the challenges of trying to find one’s place in the world, a socc

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Her filmmaking careers spans over 30 years, resulting in a body of work that has won every major broadcast award including the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred E duPont Award. Her films have screened in festivals and theaters around the world and are novelistic in their structure, providing multiple points of connection for an audience. Finitzo allows the narrative arc of her character’s story to evolve, colliding with other subjects from the film, creating a complex, nuanced story that serves as a vehicle to deepen our understanding of society through everyday human drama.

Her work as a filmmaker can be found at mariafinitzo.com. Maria has taught at Northwestern University in the MFA in Documentary Media program and is on the Mentorship Board at Northwestern University for the MFA in Documentary Media.

After completing her last film, THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE which premiered at SXSW, Maria decided to return to photography, an early love, to explore the power of visual narratives. She currently teaches at The Santa Fe Workshops. She has studied with Maggie Taylo

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Maria Finitzo

United States of America

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American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer Maria Finitzo studied radio, television, and film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and screenwriting at the Northwestern University. Throughout her filmmaking career spanning over thirty years, she has participated in the creation of dozens of documentaries and feature films, became a two-time winner of the Peabody Award, and founded the independent production company Film Arts Production in Chicago. In her films, she takes a holistic approach to addressing various social problems, focusing on women's issues in particular. She currently works at Kartemquin Films.

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