Janice Engel’s feature documentary RAISE HELL: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, won the Audience Award at SXSW and numerous other festival awards. Released by Magnolia Pictures in August 2019, Raise Hell stayed in theaters for a spectacular 18 week run from Alabama to Alaska! Now it has jumped the pond, thanks to Modern Films which will release it in the UK and Ireland on Oct 23, 2020 in a run-up to the US election. Raise Hell reflects themes Janice holds dear: speaking truth to power, igniting activism, advocacy and finding our shared humanity.
An award-winning filmmaker and showrunner, Janice has made numerous
documentaries, non-fiction television specials and series including: Jackson Browne: Going Home, (Cable Ace-Award), Ted Hawkins Amazing Grace, (Rose D’Or Special Jury Prize) and the provocative docu-series, Addicted, (Prism Award).
Under her own banner, she created What We Carry, a multi-media documentary series dedicated to preserving Holocaust survivors’ stories. Premiered at The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, What We Carry is housed in the permanent collection at Yad Vashem and has been viewed by over 100,000 people.
Janice is a professor at Academy of Art University, San Francisco, where she loves teaching documentary film to students from all over the world. A member of the International Documentary Association and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, she lives in Los Angeles with her wife and two dogs.