Ellen Goosenberg Kent
{{short description|American film producer and director}}
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| yearsactive = 1992{{ndash}}present{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/445424/Ellen-Goosenberg-Kent/filmography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207013606/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/445424/Ellen-Goosenberg-Kent/filmography|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 7, 2016|access-date=February 6, 2016|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2016|title=Ellen Goosenberg Kent {{ndash}} Filmography {{ndash}} Movies & TV}}
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Ellen Goosenberg Kent is an American film producer and director. She is best known for directing and co-producing documentary film Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 (2013), which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 87th Academy Awards; the win was shared with producer Dana Perry.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/film-review-2015-oscar-nominated-short-films-documentary-1201438543/|title=Film Review: '2015 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary'|work=Variety|access-date=February 6, 2016|date=February 21, 2015|first=Peter|last=Debruge}} Throughout her career, she has worked on numerous films, mostly on television documentaries, including I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me (2005) and Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (2007). She has won four Emmy awards out of six nominations for her work on HBO.{{cite web|url=http://m.emmys.com/bios/ellen-goosenberg-kent|access-date=February 6, 2016|title=Ellen Goosenberg Kent|publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences}}{{cite web|title=Interview with Ellen Goosenberg Kent|url=http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/crisis-hotline-veterans-press-1/interview/ellen-goosenberg-kent.html|publisher=HBO|access-date=6 February 2016}}{{cite web|title=Interview with Producer Ellen Goosenberg Kent: One Nation Under Dog|url=http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/one-nation-under-dog-stories-of-fear-loss-and-betrayal/interview/ellen-goosenberg-kent.html|publisher=HBO|access-date=6 February 2016}}{{cite web|title=Interview: 'Wartorn' director Ellen Goosenberg Kent|url=http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/interview-wartorn-director-ellen-goosenberg-kent-on-the-reality-of-ptsd.php|website=Film School Rejects|access-date=6 February 2016}}{{cite web|title=Oscar Backstage Interview Transcript|url=http://www.oscars.org/press/backstage-interview-transcript-documentary-short-subject|website=Oscars|access-date=6 February 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Bernstein|first1=Paula|title=Why This Oscar-Nominated Short Documentary Has Been Compared to 'American Sniper'|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/why-this-oscar-nominated-short-documentary-has-been-compared-to-american-sniper-20150217|website=Indiewire|date=17 February 2015 |access-date=6 February 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Zoroya|first1=Gregg|title=A moving entry for an Oscar: Saving vets from suicide|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/18/oscar-nomination-va-documentary-suicides-veterans-hotline/23616117/|website=USA Today|access-date=6 February 2016}}
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Category:American documentary film directors
Category:American women film directors
Category:American documentary film producers
Category:Directors of Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
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Category:American women film producers
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