Pamela Hogan
Executive Producer
Pamela Hogan is an executive producer of Women, War & Peace, producer/writer of the film about Bosnia which kicks off the series, I Came to Testify, and co-writer of the series’ fourth film, The War We Are Living, about Colombia. Previously, she has been at the forefront of making PBS’s Emmy-winning, international documentary series WIDE ANGLE, a standard setter in the coverage of global women’s issues.
As WIDE ANGLE’s series producer for its first six seasons, then executive producer for its seventh, Hogan oversaw 70 hours of documentaries filmed in 50 countries. She has originated such films as Time for School (Gabriel Award, Overseas Press Club Citation, IDA Nominee), a 12-year exploration of the lives of seven children in seven countries who are struggling to get a basic education; and the Emmy Award-winning Ladies First, about the role of women in re-building post-genocide Rwanda. She also produced WIDE ANGLE’s post-film interviews, including conversations with Arundhati Roy, James A. Baker IIIrd, Joseph Stiglitz, Leon Panetta, Susan Rice, and George Mitchell.
Hogan was previously director of National Geographic Television’s international co-productions, garnering numerous Emmys. Other credits include: Senior Producer, Earth on Edge, a Bill Moyers environmental special; and Field Producer, NBC’s Peabody Award-winning To Be An American about a Cambodian family’s first year in the U.S. after fleeing the Khmer Rouge. She collaborated with Harvard physicist Peter Galison on the independent film Ultimate Weapon about the secret debate over whether to build the H-bomb; and with Connie Shulman on a personal film Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury. She has been a judge, panelist, and featured speaker at Harvard’s Askwith Forum, Brown’s Watson Institute, the Asia Society, USAID, the U.N., Wildscreen, ITVS’s International Call, and Docuclub NY. Hogan holds degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America.