Jeanne Hallacy, Filmmaker and Youth Media Educator
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Jeanne Hallacy has lived in Thailand for decades, producing stories about human rights and social justice issues in Southeast Asia with expertise in Burma.
Hallacy has worked as an advocate of Press Freedom and served as the Director of Programs at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand from 1997-2010
Hallacy is the director of the award-winning InSIGHT OUT! Photo Storytelling project that trains children in conflict areas to create media.
http://www.insightoutproject.org/
Her documentary films are used as agents for change.
Film Credits
Padauk: Myanmar Spring (2021)Padauk: Myanmar Spring takes the viewer to the streets of Myanmar during the heady days following the February 2021 military coup. Through Nant—a young, first-time protester—we meet three human rights activists whose lives have been turned upside down by the coup. As the protests continue, Nant comes to understand the truth of a brutal regime that has continued to wage war against its own people for decadesAgainst a foreboding backdrop, Nant’s political awakening regarding the plight of others in her ethnically diverse country gives hope for the future. Beautifully augmented by poetry and art, Padauk: Myanmar Spring shows the resilience and determination of the people of Myanmar, and the sacrifices they've made.
Mother, Daughter, Sister a half-hour film about Rohingya and Kachin women calling for justice and an end to rape as a weapon of war in Burma. (2018)
Sittwe/Heal a short film about two teenagers from divided sides of the segregated communities in Burma’s Rakhine state. Received Best Southeast Asia Short Documentary, Freedom Film Festival, Malaysia. (2017)
This Kind of Love a profile of Burmese human rights activist Aung Myo Min premiered at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival. Received Award of Merit in LGBT Category at the Accolade International Film Competition. www.thiskindoflovefilm.org (2015)
Into the Current: Burma’s Political Prisoners, chronicles the history of non-violent resistance in Burma, nominated for the Social Justice Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival www.intothecurrent.org (2012)
Mercy (meddah) about a Thai girl who lost her family to AIDS, officially selected in twelve festivals and awarded the Special Jury Award in the Ojai Film Festival. www.der.org/films/mercy.htm (2002)
Burma Diary, a four-year journal of a refugee family displaced by war officially screened in thirteen festivals and broadcast on PBS. Best New Director Award at the Women in Film Festival. www.der.org/films/burma-diary.html (1997)