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Maria Finitzo is a photographer, screenwriter, director, and three-time Peabody Award–winning filmmaker who has won every major broadcast award, including the Alfred I. duPont Award. Her films explore different realms of storytelling by investigating important social issues of the day, and for 30-plus years, she was an associate of four-time Oscar-nominated Kartemquin Films, whose ...
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.
MARIA FINITZO | Filmmaker. Fiction and Non-Fiction Storytelling. mariafinitzo@filmartsproductions.com. About. I grew up in an Italian/Irish home in an immigrant neighborhood in Chicago. Some of my earliest memories are of the stories my Italian father told my sisters and me as we sat around the dinner table.
Maria Finitzo is a two-time Peabody Award-winning filmmaker who has won every major broadcast award including most recently the Alfred E duPont Award for her directing on the series HARD-EARNED. Her films have screened in festivals around the world, exploring different realms of storytelling by investigating the important social issues of the day.
For two years, filmmaker Maria Finitzo followed five strong young women between the ages of 13 and 17. Unlike the myriad reports, books and "specials" that focus on young women as passive and powerless, 5 Girls explores the ways these girls discover the resources necessary to successfully navigate the rocky waters of adolescence.
Here's the plot: "For two years filmmaker Maria Finitzo followed five strong young women between the ages of 13 and 17 Unlike the myriad reports books and specials that focus on young women as ...
For two years, filmmaker Maria Finitzo followed five strong young women between the ages of 13 and 17. Unlike the myriad reports, books and “specials” that focus on young women as passive and powerless, 5 Girls explores the ways these girls discover the resources necessary to successfully navigate the rocky waters of adolescence.
