{"id":204,"date":"2021-03-22T17:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/american-rhapsody\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=204"},"modified":"2021-03-22T17:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:02:01","slug":"nancy-schiesari","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/american-rhapsody\/speaker\/nancy-schiesari\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Schiesari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nancy is an experienced director, producer and cinematographer on both broadcast documentaries and award-winning independent films.&nbsp; Her latest full-length documentary,&nbsp;<em>Canine Soldiers,<\/em> the Militarization of Love, premiered at the Austin Film Festival and aired nationally on PBS over Memorial Day weekend, 2018. She also directed and produced feature length documentaries, <em>Cactus Jack, Lone Star on Capitol Hill<\/em>, PBS, <em>Tattooed Under Fire<\/em>, PBS, <em>Hansel Mieth-Vagabond Photographer<\/em> (Independent Lens) and <em>History Man, a<\/em>&nbsp;half hour profile on Martin Scorsese for BBC 4, London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Nancy comes with thirty years\u2019 experience as a Director of Photography on over 50 documentaries and feature films broadcast for England\u2019s Channel 4, BBC, ABC, National Geographic, and PBS.&nbsp; She has filmed in Europe, the US, Africa, India, Pakistan, Iceland, and Latin America. She was nominated for a Television Emmy for outstanding cinematography on&nbsp;<em>The Human Face,<\/em>&nbsp;(producer John Cleese). Among her work as cinematographer is Barbara Sonneborn\u2019s Oscarnominated <em>Regret to Inform<\/em>, winner best documentary at Sundance, and Pratibha Parmar and Alice Walker\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Warrior Marks<\/em>, Channel Four, London. Nancy&nbsp;graduated with an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London, and&nbsp;is a professor in production in the Radio \u2013Television and Film Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the mother of two grown children, Eleanor Cheetham and Felix Turton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009, she founded Mo-Ti productions, dedicated to making films with diverse talent committed to telling stories from new perspectives. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motiproductions.com\">www.motiproductions.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":205,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-204","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Producer, Director, and Cinematographer","speaker_last_name":"Schiesari","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/american-rhapsody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/american-rhapsody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/american-rhapsody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/american-rhapsody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/american-rhapsody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/204\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/american-rhapsody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/american-rhapsody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}