Erika Cohn
American film producer
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Education
She attended Chapman University and Hebrew University and earned degrees in Film Production, Middle Eastern studies, and Acting Performance.[3] Erika is also a photographer and a U.S. Ambassadorial Film Scholar in Israel and Palestine.[4]
Filmography
- When the Voices Fade (2006)
- Giant Steps (2008)
- La Guerrera (2008)
- God in America (2010)
- In Football We Trust (2015)[5]
- The Judge (2017)[6]
- Belly of the Beast (2020)[7][8]
Awards and fellowships
Cohn and her films have been awarded Emmy and Peabody awards.[1] She was awarded a Directors Guild of America award for When the Voices Fade.[9] She was recognized by Variety as a leading documentary filmmaker "to watch in 2017."[10] She was listed in Doc NYC's "40 Under 40" list for 2019. Her "Win from Within" series for Gatorade was nominated 2016 Webby award.[3] In 2016 she was a National MediaMaker Fellow and was admitted to the CPB Producer's Academy.[11] In 2017 she was a Rauschenberg Foundation Artist as Activist Fellow.[12]