Ellen Spiro

Ellen Spiro has created many inventive documentaries, including Diana's Hair Ego, Greetings From Out Here, Roam Sweet Home, Atomic Ed & the Black Hole and TROOP 15OO. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Rockefeller Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Jerome Foundation Fellowship and others. Her work has won numerous awards and shown in museums including the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum Biennial, and 6 times at the Museum of Modern Art. Her films have been broadcast worldwide on PBS, HBO, BBC, and CBC (Canada) and NHK (Japan). (03/05)

DiAna's Hair Ego:
A film by Ellen Spiro, 1990, 29 min., Color
Realizing the extreme inadequacy of local information on AIDS prevention, cosmetologist DiAna DiAna, with her partner Dr. Bambi Sumpter, took on the t...

Troop 1500
A film by Ellen Spiro & Karen Bernstein, 2005, 68 min., Color
Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers and drug dealers, but the girls of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers and marine biologis...