Rory Kennedy
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy is an American documentary filmmaker and youngest child of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel. Kennedy has made documentary films that center on social issues such as addiction, nuclear radiation, the treatment of prisoners-of-war, and the politics of the Mexican border fence. Her films have been featured on many TV networks.
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Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy is an American documentary filmmaker and youngest child of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel. Kennedy has made documentary films that center on social issues such as addiction, nuclear radiation, the treatment of prisoners-of-war, and the politics of the Mexican border fence. Her films have been featured on many TV networks. Kennedy’s older brother Michael LeMoyne Kennedy was assigned as her godparent by their mother. When Rory was a teenager, she was arrested during a protest outside the South African Embassy. Kennedy directed and co-produced the Emmy Award-nominated series Pandemic: Facing AIDS, which premiered at the International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, on July 8, 2002. She also co- produced Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, which won the 2007 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Documentary and was broadcast on HBO in June 2003. She was a producer for Street Fight, The History Channel’s 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America, which chronicles the 2002 New Jersey mayoral campaign of Cory Booker — then a Democratic eighteen-year-old municipal Councilman — against incumbent Mayor James Sharpe. She is married to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and has a son, Michael, with whom she has a daughter, Kaitlin, and a son-in-law, Michael Kennedy, who is also a filmmaker. She has a brother, David, who died from a drug overdose at the age of 15.
Rory graduated from Madeira School and then Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1998, Kennedy and another fellow Brown graduate Liz Garbus founded Moxie Firecracker Films, which specializes in documentaries that highlight pressing social issues. The television networks that have shown its films include: A&E, the UK’s Channel 4, Court TV, Discovery Channel, HBO, Lifetime, MTV, Oxygen, PBS, Sundance Channel, and TLC. In October 2001, Kennedy traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, to address the opening meeting of the National Council of Jewish Women. At the meeting, she spoke about her documentary film-production company Change the World Through Film. In March 2004, she cited her father’s experiences in the American South as an inspiration and starting point. In the same article, she goes on to mention that showing class differences in American culture also motivates her. She directed andCo-produced Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable for HBO, which was broadcast in America as a five-part series on September 9, 2004. The film takes a what if look at the catastrophic consequences of a radioactive release at the Indian Point Energy Center, a three-unit nuclear-power plant station, located 35 miles north of midtown Manhattan, NewYork City, New York.
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