A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Cynthia Lowen’s work uses the power of story to catalyze measurable change. She’s the producer and writer of ‘Bully’ (The Weinstein Company) a feature documentary following five kids and families through a year in the life of America’s bullying crisis. ‘Bully’ was nominated for two Emmys, shortlisted for the Oscars, screened at The White House and received a DuPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism. Cynthia is also the director/producer of ‘Netizens,’ a feature documentary about women and online harassment (Tribeca 2018, HBO Max) which screened at festivals world-wide and is part of the U.S. State Department’s film diplomacy program. Cynthia is currently in development with XTR and 30West on ‘In Her Own Words,’ a feature documentary she’s directing about NDAs and forced arbitration, featuring Gretchen Carlson. In conjunction with her films, Cynthia has spearheaded large-scale impact and engagement campaigns, working with partners such as ADL, Autism Speaks, Facebook, GLSEN, Human Rights Campaign, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, the National Network to End Domestic Violence, Sears, the United Federation of Teachers, as well as policymakers and many others, to develop wrap-around educational materials, town hall events, digital campaigns, community screening tours, and other initiatives. Through the ‘Bully’ impact campaign, over five million students accessed the film, free of cost, with their educators. Cynthia is the recipient of the Women Authoring Change Fellowship from WME and residencies to Yaddo and McDowell, among other honors; she is a member of the Producers Guild of America.
Consulting Producer:
2015 Back Water
Director:
2015 Back Water
2018 Netizens
2022 Battleground
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Producer:
2011 Bully
2015 Back Water
2018 Netizens
2022 Battleground
???? In Her Own Words
Writer:
2011 Bully
2015 Back Water
2018 Netizens
2022 Battleground
???? In Her Own Words
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.