Carolyn Hepburn is an Emmy Award-winning producer whose work has been selected for internationally-recognised film festivals like Sundance, South by South West and Tribeca. Hepburn co-produced Life, Animated, which won the US Documentary Directing Award at Sundance, was nominated for the 2017 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award® and won three Emmy Awards including Best Documentary. She executive produced Weiner, winner of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize and shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award®. 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets about American gun and race violence won the 2015 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Social Impact, nominated for an Emmy Award, and once more shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Award® for Best Documentary. Hepburn is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA), British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). In 2019, she received her first APSA nomination for One Child Nation.
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