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Connie Field is best known for directing five feature documentary films: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980), Forever Activists (1990), Freedom on My Mind (1994), Have You Heard From Johannesburg (2010) and Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine (2013).1She and her work have been nominated for two Academy Awards , and won dozens of other film awards, including a Primetime Emmy , the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and two International Documentary Association Best Feature and Series awards.2She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences , the International Documentary Association , and the San Francisco Film Society .3
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Connie Field is a director of documentary features.Her works include The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980), Forever Activists (1990), Freedom on My Mind (1994) and Have You Heard From Johannesburg (2010) Her work has been nominated for two Academy Awards , and other film awards, including a Primetime Emmy , the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and two International Documentary Association Best Feature and Series awards.
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American documentary filmmaker Connie Field is a director of documentary features. Her works include The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980), Forever Activists (1990), Freedom on My Mind (1994) and Have You Heard From Johannesburg (2010). Her resume have been nominated for two Academy Awards , and other film awards, including a Primetime Emmy , the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and two International Documentary Association Best Feature and Series awards.
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American documentary filmmaker Connie Field is an American film director known for her work in documentaries . Her works include The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980), Forever Activists (1990), Freedom on My Mind (1994) and Have You Heard from Johannesburg (2010). Field's works have received numerous awards and nominations.Among other recognitions, Freedom on My Mind won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival , and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 67th Academy Awards ; Have You Heard from Johannesburg won the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards .
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best known for directing five feature documentary films
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american film director known for her work in documentaries
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