Karen Shopsowitz, Barri Cohen and Linda Silver Dranoff

About this episode

Judy Librach interviews Karen Shopsowitz, Barri Cohen, and Linda Silver Dranoff about their work on 'Fairly Equal: Conversations Toward a Feminist Future'.

On this episode of Finding Your Bliss, Celebrity Interviewer and Bliss Coach Judy Librach is joined by the visionary storytellers and creators behind “Fairly Equal: Conversations Toward a Feminist Future”, Karen Shopsowitz, Barri Cohen and Linda Silver Dranoff. Karen Shopsowitz is a Peabody-award winning producer, director, editor and cameraperson, whose work has been screened nationally and internationally. She was the director of TVO’s “Magic Shadows: Elwy Yost: A Life in Movies”, produced by Firestarter Productions. She also co-produced and edited “Mudder’s Hands”, a short documentary which was featured in FIN Atlantic International Film Festival, the Montreal Independent Film Festival, and the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Vermont. Karen was also the producer, director, editor and second cameraperson of “The Other Side of the Hero”, a documentary about first responders and PTSD, which aired on CBC’s documentary channel and has been screened across North America at several festivals and events. Other documentary highlights include directing, editing and co-writing “My Father's Camera”, which went on to win a prestigious Peabody Award. As well as her role as series…

People in this episode

Host: Judy Librach

Guests: Karen Shopsowitz, Barri Cohen, Linda Silver Dranoff

Topics covered

• feminism
• documentary filmmaking
• storytelling
• mental health
• women in media

Keywords

• feminism
• documentary
• interview
• storytelling
• mental health
• women's rights
• media

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TVO, CBC, Firestarter Productions

Books & works: Fairly Equal: Conversations Toward a Feminist Future, Magic Shadows: Elwy Yost: A Life in Movies, Mudder’s Hands, The Other Side of the Hero, My Father's Camera, Canada's War in Colour, GrandParenting, One Summer at Camp Winston, My Grandparents Had a Hotel

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