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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

This multi-platform project is centered around a four-hour PBS primetime national and international broadcast event based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's widely acclaimed book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

Premiere Date

October 1, 2012

Length

240 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production, Development

Maro Chermayeff

Producer

Maro Chermayeff is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, director, author, and former television executive at A&E/AETN. She is founder and chair of the MFA program in Social Documentary at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and partner in the production company Show of Force. Some of her extensive credits include: Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace (PBS, 2014), the landmark four-hour PBS documentary series Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (PBS, 2012), the six-hour series Circus (PBS, 2010), the emmy-award winning Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (HBO, 2012), Mann v. Ford (HBO, 2011), Parasomnia (France 2, 2010), the Emmy Award-winning 10-hour series Carrier (PBS/Nat Geo International, 2008), the six-hour series Frontier House (PBS, 2002), American Masters: Juilliard (PBS, 2003), The Kindness of Strangers (HBO, 1999), Role Reversal (A&E 2002), Trauma, Life in the ER (TLC, 2001), the Vanity Fair web series Eminent Domains (2014), and over 15 specials for Charlie Rose. Represented by WME, Chermayeff is a principal of Show of Force, the production entity for the Half the Sky Movement. She is an executive producer of Half the Sky Movement's Facebook Game and three Mobile Games with Games for Change.
Jamie Gordon

Producer

Headshot of Mikaela Beardsley
Mikaela Beardsley

Producer

Mikaela Beardsley is an Emmy-winning documentary producer and has had a hand in 20 nationally broadcast films and series. In addition to A Once and Future Peace, she is co-producing A Boston R(evolution), about the historic 2021 Boston mayoral race. Through projects like Half the Sky Movement, Mikaela finds innovative ways to harness storytelling's power for good.