Jonathan Skurnik
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Jonathan Skurnik |
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Email: jonathan@jskurnik.com |
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Jonathan Skurnik has produced, directed and shot numerous award-winning documentaries and has recently completed his first two fiction films as writer/director. His three most recent documentaries include: The Elevator Operator, a documentary about a Ukrainian immigrant who runs a manual elevator in Manhattan. It has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, won Best Documentary at the Urban TV film festival in Madrid and had its broadcast premiere on PBS and Ukrainian TV; the award-winning Spit It Out which was broadcast on PBS in 2007; and A Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay which won the prestigious Harry Chapin award for films about hunger and poverty and was broadcast on PBS and in Europe in 2002. Jonathan is currently directing Ice Music, an hi-def documentary about an ice music festival in Norway; producing Something’s Moving, a documentary about survivors of American Indian boarding schools; and he’s directing She’s A Boy, a documentary about transgender children. |
