Nicole Newnham
Nicole Newnham is an American documentary film producer, writer, and director known for the Oscar-nominated movie Crip Camp (2020) which she co-directed and produced with James LeBrecht, and the multiple-Emmy-nominated film The Rape of Europa. Both Collisions and Awavena premiered simultaneously at Sundance and the World Economic Forum in Davos, and Awavena was selected for the 2018 Venice Biennale. Her most recent film, The Disappearance of Shere Hite, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Nicole Newnham
- Name
- Nicole Newnham
- Birthplace
- New York, New York
- Education
- Stanford
- Awards
- * Emmy
- Born
- 2000
- Occupation
- documentary filmmaker · screenwriter · film producer · director
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That film also made the influential 2023 DOC NYC Awards Short List and won Special Mention for Editing, edited by Eileen Meyer. In 2025, The Disappearance of Shere Hite was nominated for the Cinema for Peace Dove for Women's Empowerment.
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Nicole Newnham is described as a screenwriter, director and film producer in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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• Name — Nicole Newnham • Birthplace — New York, New York • Education — Stanford • Years Active — 1994-present • Notable Works — * Crip Camp • The Rape of Europa • Awards — * Emmy • 2017 • Emmy • 2020 Newnham's 2013 film The Revolutionary Optimists was nominated for an Emmy and won the Sundance Hilton Sustainability Award. That film also spawned the data-mapping website Map Your World which is an open source data/mapping/storytelling platform. In 2006 she co-directed the Independent Lens / PBS documentary Sentenced Home, also nominated for an Emmy, about three Cambodian-American men - raised in the United States - who found themselves eligible to be deported to Cambodia after 9/11. With Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker, she produced They Drew Fire, about the Combat Artists of WWII, and co-wrote the companion book, distributed by HarperCollins. Her first documentary, Unforgettable Face, screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994.
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Newnham earned an M.A. from the Stanford Documentary Film Program in 1994. She lives in Oakland, CA with her husband Tom Malarkey, and their two sons.
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- 1.Crip Camp Directors Want You To Rethink the Idea of Disability. IndieWire. 2020-03-16.
- 2.The Rape Of Europa. TVGuide.com. 2019-05-22.
- 3.Dry, Jude. 'The Disappearance of Shere Hite' Review: Slighted Women's Sexuality Pioneer Gets Her Due. IndieWire. 2023-01-20.
- 4.Thompson, Anne. DOC NYC Reveals Influential Awards Short List, from 'The Eternal Memory' to 'Little Richard: I Am Everything'. IndieWire. 2023-10-17.
- 5.2023 Award Winners. DOC NYC. 2023-11-15.
- 6.Goodfellow, Melanie. Pope Francis, Hillary Clinton & Ban Ki-Moon To Be Feted At Berlin Cinema For Peace Gala Alongside Works Protecting Jewish Life & Sharon Stone Art. Deadline. 2024-02-12.
- 7.Films - Crip Camp. Catapult Film Fund.
- 8.Map Your World. The Alliance. 2015-09-10.
- 9.Nicole Newnham. The Alliance. 2017-01-06.
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