Luisa Conlon
@luisaconlon
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Documentary filmmaker | Director: @seniorpromfilm @pbs | Work in: @vicenews @nytimes @nytopinion | @berkeleyjournalism alum and @pulitzercenter grantee.
Joined March 2012
We made a film celebrating LGBTQ+ elders and the prom night they never had. Please watch @SeniorPromFilm and share with everyone you love. Happy #PRIDE!! Thank you to @PBS @IndependentLens @ITVSIndies for giving us the perfect home. Now on #PBSVoices: https://t.co/kLDthkiGyD
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TONIGHT! 📺 Tune in to @SeniorPromFilm on your local @PBS station and celebrate our #LGBTQ+ trailblazers. 🏳️🌈 Airing on @IndependentLens at 10 PM ET/PT and 9 PM CT. And afterward, continue the conversation with support of the film's discussion guide: https://t.co/wzpZ3w2vvi.
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📺 Tune in TONIGHT! So proud to be broadcasting my film @SeniorPromFilm on @PBS. January 23 at 10 PM ET/PT on @IndependentLens. We’re bringing the voices of our #LBGTQ elders to 500+ stations nationwide.
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❤️ @ucbsoj
🍀 Good luck tonight to all of our faculty, students and alumni honored with News & Documentary Emmy nominations! We could not be prouder @cal + @UCBerkeley. Special thanks to our partners @frontlinepbs & @propublica. #NewsEmmys 🏆
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Tune in tonight on @Showtime . Migrants are looking for alternate routes to come to the U.S,including coming by boat. 50 miles off Miami’s coast, the island of Bimini in the Bahamas has become the perfect launching point for migrants to attempt the sea journey.👇🏼
.@VICENews Correspondent @paoramos met with some of the main organizers that are smuggling migrants from Bimini in the Bahamas to South Florida. A new episode of #VICEonSHO streams tomorrow.
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Tonight on @Showtime.👇
.@VICENews Correspondent @paoramos met with some of the main organizers that are smuggling migrants from Bimini in the Bahamas to South Florida. A new episode of #VICEonSHO streams tomorrow.
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✨ The @nytimes received a record number of @newsemmys nominations this year.
nytco.com
The Times received 19 News and Documentary nominations for work published on its site. “The New York Times Presents” was also nominated for four awards; and “Boeing’s Fatal Flaw…
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11 Emmy nominations for our NYT Opinion Video and Op-Docs. From Covid ICU coverage, to climate, to race, to disability rights....not bad for our 11 person @nytopinion team.
Congratulations! For the full list of the 43rd Annual #NewsEmmys Awards nominees, please visit our website at https://t.co/h3djtXjTAG. Be sure to tune in on @TheEmmys app or at https://t.co/77Q11iiQrv on September 28th & 29th!
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1/What happened to providers, patients and protesters at one #Texas clinic when #RoeVsWade was overturned
latimes.com
An abortion clinic is San Antonio is forced to turn away patients in the waiting room as the Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade.
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This shows the power and impact Shireen’s journalism had on the world. And it’s why governments and armies are so afraid of it.
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"What is happening is criminal, not the ways people are figuring out their options..." Our piece on the underground network in TX securing and distributing misoprostol for self-managed abortions. @paoramos @victoles @luisaconlon @sommerstace @treynormal
https://t.co/1tGBcFlhHi
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@paoramos and I traveled to TX and Mexico to understand how miso is getting into the hands of people who need it. See our piece tonight on @VICENews! The team: @luisaconlon @victoles @sommerstace @treynormal
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Alum @luisaconlon's ('17) documentary short @SeniorPromFilm about LGBTQ+ retirees taking back the prom night they never had, shortlisted for #IDADocAwards! https://t.co/IiBxgc2MkI.
#proud @UCBerkeley @cal
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BIG NEWS! ✨ FIVE✨ Independent Lens docs and our series as a whole were nominated for @IDAorg's 2021 #IDADocAwards! More in the thread below 🧵⇩ https://t.co/bBYpTCq1mI
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The nominees for Best Short at the 2021 #IDADocAward are: 🎬 ‘A Broken House 🎬 ‘Águilas’ 🎬 ‘Ain't No Time For Women’ 🎬 ‘E14’ 🎬 ‘Joe Buffalo’ 🎬 ‘Kalsubai’ 🎬 ‘Open Shutters’ 🎬 ‘Red Taxi’ 🎬 @SeniorPromFilm 🎬 ‘Since you arrived, my heart stopped belonging to me’
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Thank you @IDAorg!! We couldn't be more honored to have @SeniorPromFilm nominated for the #IDADocAwards with our incredible partners at @IndependentLens.
🏆 IDA is thrilled to announce the 2021 #IDADocAwards nominees in all categories! See the best of this year's documentary work and creators in the thread below. 👇 https://t.co/Flia6MYIR5
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Spotted #ITVSfunded docs @SeniorPromFilm, Writing With Fire, @StormLakeMovie and @AileyFilm on the 2021 @IDAorg Awards shortlists for the Best Feature and Best Short categories 💫 https://t.co/qEMVmFl7jh
indiewire.com
The IDA is one of several awards groups that help create momentum for documentary Oscar contenders.
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Honored to have @SeniorPromFilm on the shortlist - thank you @IDAorg!! Grateful to @IndependentLens @PBS for supporting LGBTQ+ stories.
IDA Awards Build Oscar Buzz with 2021 Shortlists for Best Documentary Feature and Short https://t.co/hPcU72RghX
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It's the first day #LGBTQHistoryMonth and there's no better time to share the stories of LGBTQ+ elders. You can stream @SeniorPromFilm for free on @PBS and hear from the history-making leaders of our community. https://t.co/DCPWT5nXUX
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