Maggie Bowman Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

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FILMOGRAPHYDetermined: Fighting Alzheimers / PBS / Consulting Producer, 2022Any Given Day / PBS / Consulting Producer, 2021Becoming / Netflix / Field Producer, 2020We Are Witnesses: Chicago / Digital / Co-director/Producer, 2019, Emmy-nominatedMinding the Gap / PBS and Hulu / Consulting Producer, 2018, Oscar-nominatedHard Earned / Al Jazeera America / Series Producer, 2015, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia winnerThe Calling / PBS / Segment Director, 2010Election Day / PBS / Producer, 2008Unfinished Country / PBS / Associate Producer, 2007Dimmer / Sundance Film Festival / Line Producer, 2005

Director and producer of short-format work for clients ranging from multinational consumer brands to issue-specific policy organizations, including Facebook, Gatorade, and the National Academy of Medicine.

Select Clients: Strategic Organizing Center, Center for Media & Social Impact• Advise clients on grassroots organizing, policy campaigns, and independent film sector field engagement.• Executed public launch of documentary industry diversity study, managed coalition to improve social impact reach of documentary films, and led letter-writing campaign to federal regulatory body regarding antitrust issues.• Designed projects through dual lenses of education and collective action.

•Led 800+ member group founded to strengthen networks and share resources among U.S. independent filmmakers, art house cinemas, film festivals, artist support organizations, and grassroots collectives at both national and regional levels.•Authored industry briefing for policymakers on challenges and opportunities in independent film, informed by interviews with 100 diverse stakeholders in the field.

• Member of 5-person senior leadership team, contributed to overall strategic guidance and vision for the 4,000-member non-profit.• Designed organization’s pandemic rapid response to help filmmakers access federal benefits and advocate legislatively for those most affected by COVID-19.• Led strategic planning for the creation of a new advocacy department.• Engaged independent filmmakers in community, political and regulatory activism.• Directed 2020 Getting Real a 5-day conference attended virtually by 3,000 documentary professionals from 52 countries. Programmed 50 sessions in collaboration with staff team and wide swath of industry stakeholders.• Curated year-round educational programming for independent documentary field.

• Leader in foundational years of grassroots organization committed to raising industry standards in the independent documentary field.• Organized industry support for groundbreaking film crediting guidelines.• Founded Labor Committee and participated in Equity & Inclusion Committee.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Worked closely with Kartemquin’s Co-Founder, Gordon Quinn, to provide artistic guidance for the 57-year-old documentary production company known for social issue films such as Hoop Dreams, ’63 Boycott, and Unapologetic.• Provided editorial, creative and producing consulting on films in production, including Oscar-nominated and Peabody-winning Minding the Gap.• Organized and moderated “Heartlandia,” a Midwest-focused documentary summit addressing concerns of financial sustainability for filmmakers working outside of the coasts. Forty filmmakers from ten states attended half-day program.

Berkeley, Ca

In residence at University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Conducted investigative research on the student debt crisis, bankruptcy and the evolution of higher education financing. Conducted development for series of short films on the topic. Audited graduate school courses.

Chicago, Il

A landmark six-part documentary series on getting by in America. Produced by Kartemquin Films for Al Jazeera America, Hard Earned follows five families around the country to find out what it takes to live on eight, ten or even 15 dollars an hour. The series turns an intimate lens on this group of 21st century American dreamers. They fight against all odds to thrive, when it takes everything they have to simply survive. Premiere broadcast: May 2015Winner, 2016 duPont-Columbia Award for broadcast journalismNominee, 2015 International Documentary Association Award for Best Limited Series**Message me for a link to watch series on Vimeo, due to AJAM being defunct

Chicago, Il

• Co-Launched video department at leading design and branding agency. • From pitch to final delivery, produced and directed multi-platform content for brand expression, marketing and advertising campaigns.• Produced and directed video and motion graphics work for clients such as IBM, USAA, Proctor & Gamble, CME Group, Citadel, and Thomson Reuters.

New York, Ny

Learned craft of documentary filmmaking on-the-jobWorked as intern, Spanish interpreter, production assistant, and assistant editor on feature films Deadline, Gypsy Caravan, and Arctic SonProduced the nationally-broadcast Election DayDirected short-form pieces for non-profit clients

Researched, booked and pre-interviewed guests for Brian Lehrer Show, a public affairs call-in talk daily broadcast.

New York, Ny

• Conducted strategic research for labor union clients such as 1199SEIU.• Developed communications for workers, the media and the larger public.• Advised campaign directors on power mapping and strategy in health care industry.

• Organized workers in campaigns for union recognition in NYC and Central Region.• Developed workplace leaders in health care and taxi industries.• Participated in successful 1998 landmark campaign to organize the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, which established SEIU Local 199.

New York, Ny