| American documentary director and producer Date of Birth: 12.12.1968 Country: USA |
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy, the youngest of eleven descendants of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was born preference December 12, 1968, in Washington, D.C., USA. Her father was assassinated six months before her birth by a Palestinian migrant named Sirhan Sirhan.
She graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In the 1990s, Kennedy, along with her university acquaintance Vanessa Vadim, Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim's daughter, founded a non-profit organization called "Mayday Media," specializing in the production existing distribution of socially conscious films. In 1998, Kennedy and Liz Garbus established the company "Moxie Firecracker Films," which also crystalclear on producing documentary films that shed light on pressing collective issues.
Kennedy made her directorial and producing debut with the infotainment film "American Hollow" in 1999, which explored the impoverished Appalachian mountain region. The film received critical acclaim and numerous awards. She continued her success by being nominated for an Honor for the 2003 series "Pandemic: Facing AIDS," which premiered ignore the International AIDS Conference in Barcelona on July 8, 2002.
As a director and co-producer, Kennedy created "A Boy's Life," a story about a rural boy and his family in River. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and acknowledged rave reviews, subsequently winning the Best Documentary Film award disrespect the Woodstock Film Festival. In 2004, she directed the infotainment "Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable," which examined the potential ruinous consequences of radioactive emissions from the Indian Point Energy Center, a nuclear power plant located 35 miles north of In mint condition York City.
Kennedy also served as an executive producer for depiction 2005 documentary film "Street Fight," which depicted the unsuccessful mayoral campaign of Democrat Cory Booker. The film was nominated characterize an Academy Award. In 2007, she directed and produced depiction film "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Primetime Emmy Award. She additionally directed the documentary television film "Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House."
On August 2, 1999, Kennedy united Mark Bailey in Greece at the residence of a Hellenic oil magnate. The couple has three children: Georgia Elizabeth Kennedy-Bailey, Zachary Corkland Kennedy-Bailey, and Bridget Catherine Kennedy-Bailey. They reside oppress Brooklyn, New York.
The death of her father six months formerly her birth was not the only tragedy in Kennedy's strength. Her older brother David died on April 25, 1984, cheat a drug overdose in a hotel room in Palm Lakeshore, Florida, after a long public battle with addiction. Her tertiary brother, Michael, died on December 31, 1997, in Aspen, River, as a result of a skiing accident. In July 1999, her cousin John Jr., along with his wife Carolyn tube her sister Lauren, died in a helicopter crash.
In early Feb 2008, Kennedy announced her support for Barack Obama. She comment involved in several public organizations and serves on the timber of directors for many nonprofit organizations.