Chana Gazit is an award-winning documentary producer/director/writer. Her work has been honored with multiple EMMY nominations and three EMMY Awards.
Chana Gazit is an award-winning documentary producer/director/writer. Her work has been honored with multiple EMMY nominations and three EMMY Awards. Additionally, her work has been recognized by, among others, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards, the Peabody Awards, the Writer’s Guild Awards, and the Sundance Film Festival. &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br /><br />
Some of her career highlights include two acclaimed Public Television series: a four-part biography of Franklin Roosevelt and a four-part biography of Lyndon Johnson. She produced, directed, and wrote eight films for the PBS series, American Experience: Chicago&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br /><br />
‘68, Surviving the Dust Bowl, Meltdown at Three Mile Island, Fatal Flood, The Pill, Test Tube Babies, The Forgotten Plague, and The Codebreaker. Some of her other films were featured in major stand-alone series including: Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers, Slavery &amp;amp;amp; the Making of America, Destination America, and This Emotional Life. She also wrote two prominent television specials: All the President’s Men Revisited, a chronicle of the Watergate scandal; and Lincoln@ Gettysburg, an exploration of the most famous presidential speech ever written. More recently, she produced an in-depth investigation of the heroin epidemic for the series, America Divided, followed by her work as a story producer on Soundtracks, a look at the social movements of the last half-century through the lens of music. In 2019, she completed an expose on the impact of captivity on the killer whales at SeaWorld. Next, she released an independent feature on an all-male ballet company, Ballerina Boys. And most recently, she executive produced a six-part series on Big Pharma, for which she also directed two episodes on the Sackler family and the opioid crisis. &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br /><br />
