Jessie Deeter
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2003
- Affiliation during program:
- Freelance Video
- Country:
- Sierra Leone
- Year:
- 2003
- Email:
- [email protected]
Jessie Deeter is a veteran documentary filmmaker and journalist. She was the Producer of “Who Killed the Electric Car?” She is currently producing “Revenge of the Electric Car,” (www.revengeoftheelectriccar.com) and producing and directing a documentary about breast cancer survivors in the United Arab Emirates.
She recently co-produced and reported “Tapped,”(www.tappedthemovie.com) a feature documentary about bottled water that made its film festival debut in the summer of 2009.
Jessie produced, reported, directed and shot “No More War,” a 22-minute documentary that aired on PBS’ FRONTLINE/World in May 2005. Reviewed positively in the New York Times, “No More War” was submitted for a DuPont award by FRONTLINE. The hour-long version of that documentary, “Taking Guns from Boys,” aired on PBS’ KQED in February, 2007 and had its festival premiere in Milan, Italy. Jessie field-produced “Afghanistan: Hell of a Nation,” a 45- minute documentary on Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga that aired on PBS’ Wide Angle in September, 2004.
In 2003, Jessie traveled to five countries to field produce a documentary for the Asia Foundation’s 50th anniversary. Prior to that, Jessie worked as an associate producer for FRONTLINE/World and FRONTLINE’s “Modern Meat” and “Blackout” documentaries. Her half-hour documentary, “Some They Win,” on Mexican workers at the racetrack, screened in several festivals around the country. Jessie has a Masters of Journalism and International and Area Studies, Middle East focus, from UC Berkeley.
Since The IRP Update
IRP Fellow Jessie Deeter was nominated as producer of "Who Killed the Electric Car?" for Best Documentary in the 2006 Environmental Media Awards and for Best Documentary Read More
Stories
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No more war
United Nations peacekeepers moved into Liberia in 2003 to help implement a peace deal and make the country secure both for civilians and for the transitional government that was ...
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Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone
In Fall 2003, International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellow Jessie Deeter traveled to Liberia and Sierra Leone to examine peacekeeping efforts. ...
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Determined U.N. faces steep challenge in pacifying Liberia
Monrovia, Liberia -- "Small General" was having a bad day. His soldiers lacked the discipline to hold a straight line, and he had just had his burgundy general's beret ...
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Keeping the peace
I went to Sierra Leone and Liberia in October and November of 2003 on a Pew international journalism fellowship, spending six weeks shooting a documentary film on what it means to ...
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