Ellen Spiro
Ellen Spiro | |
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Spiro in 2016 | |
| Born | New Brunswick, New Jersey, US |
| Parent(s) | Jack and Marilyn Spiro of New Orleans, Louisiana. |
Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker. She is a producer and director of the television documentary Are the Kids Alright?, which won an Emmy Award in 2005.
Spiro is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in documentary, experimental film, and music film production in the Department of Radio-TV-Film. She is also a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley.