Deia Schlosberg

Deia Schlosberg
Alma mater Montana State University
Occupation Documentary filmmaker

Deia Schlosberg is an American documentary filmmaker and producer. She is the recipient of two Student Emmys. Her October 2016 arrest while filming an anti-fracking protest in North Dakota led to an open letter to President Barack Obama co-signed by 30 celebrities. The arrest puts Deia Schlosberg at risk of 45 years in prison and there have been claims that this is part of a worrying pattern of attacks on journalistic freedom.[1]

Early life

Deia Schlossberg graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis with an Bachelor of Arts Degree in 2002, majoring in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Art. She attended Montana State University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Science & Natural History Filmmaking.[2][3]

Career

Schlosberg directed Backyard, a documentary film about hydraulic fracturing.[3] She produced the 2016 documentary How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change.[4]

Shlosberg won the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year award in 2009,[3] after spending two years trekking 7,800 miles along the spine of the Andes Mountains, together with Gregg Treinish.[5] Five years later, in 2014, she won the Best Documentary Award and the Bricker Humanitarian Award from the Student Emmy Awards in 2014.[6]

On October 11, 2016, Schlosberg was arrested while filming protesters of the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline in Walhalla, North Dakota. She was charged with conspiracy to theft of property, conspiracy to theft of services and conspiracy to tampering with or damaging a public service.[4] Within two days, film director Josh Fox wrote an open letter to US President Barack Obama calling for her release; the letter was co-signed by thirty celebrities, including Neil Young, Mark Ruffalo, Daryl Hannah, Frances Fisher, and Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.[7] Josh Fox commented, “They have in my view violated the First Amendment. It’s fucking scary, it knocks the wind of your sails, it throws you for a loop. They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist.”[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Greenberg, Will (17 October 2016). "Judge Throws Out Charges Against Journalist Who Covered Dakota Access Pipeline". Mother Jones. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Duin, Steve (June 25, 2012). "Kickstarting Deia Schlosberg on the high toll of hydrofracking". Oregonlive.com. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Deia Schlosberg". DC Environmental Film Festival. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Visser, Nick (October 14, 2016). "Filmmaker Arrested At Pipeline Protest Facing 45 Years In Felony Charges". The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  5. ↑ Pollock, Lucas (December 2008 – January 2009). "Trekking the forgotten Andes Culture: Deia Schlosberg & Gregg Treinish (Best of Adventure: Adventurers of the Year)". National Geographic Adventure. National Geographic Society. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "COLLEGE TELEVISION AWARDS THANK YOU CAM: DEIA SCHLOSBERG". Emmys. April 24, 2014. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  7. ↑ Whitcomb, Dan (October 13, 2016). "Celebrities rally behind filmmaker arrested in pipeline protests". Reuters. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  8. ↑ Filmmaker Arrested At Pipeline Protest Facing 45 Years In Felony Charges
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