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Jessie Deeter
Affiliation during program:
Freelance Video
Country Focus: Sierra
Leone
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Fall 2003
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Jessie Deeter is an Oakland, California based documentary filmmaker who produced "Who Killed the Electric Car?," a feature-length documentary that premiered at Sundance, 2006 and was released in theaters by Sony Pictures Classics in June, 2006. In the fall of 2003 Jessie's IRP fellowship funded a trip that became a short documentary about disarming Liberia. "No More War," aired on FRONTLINE/World in May, 2005. The hour-long version of the documentary, "Taking Guns from Boys," premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and aired on KQED in February, 2007. Jessie field-produced “Afghanistan: Hell of a Nation,” a documentary on Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga that aired on PBS’ Wide Angle September 9, 2005. In the spring and summer of 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, where she conceived the idea for “Worlds Apart,” a story on women living under Shariah law in Nigeria. She was sent to Egypt to cover the outbreak of the Iraq war in March 2003. Some of that footage aired on NOW with Bill Moyers in April 2003. She was also an associate producer for FRONTLINE’s “Modern Meat” and “Blackout” documentaries. Her half-hour documentary on Mexican workers at the racetrack, “Some They Win,” screened at several film festivals and won an audience award at the Berkeley film festival in 2001. Jessie received a Master’s in Journalism and a Master’s in International and Area Studies, Middle East focus, from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She speaks fluent French and passable Arabic.
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