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Carl Deal Trouble the Water

Carl Deal

Carl Deal directed and produced the Academy Award-nominated Trouble the Water with collaborator Tia Lessin. He co-produced Capitalism: A Love Story in 2009, was a producer of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, and has contributed to many other documentary films. Previously, he worked as a freelance journalist and news producer for Worldwide Television News and the European Broadcasting Union and has reported from disasters and conflict zones throughout North America, Latin America and Iraq. Deal has also documented civil and human rights abuses for several NGOs, among them Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Public Citizen. He holds an MS in journalism from Columbia University, which awarded him the Sander Social Justice Award.

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Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2010

    Award

    Lessin and Deal receive the Harry Chapin Media Award for film for Trouble the Water

  • 2009

    Award Nomination

    Lessin and Deal are nominated for the Producers Guild of America Award for Feature Documentary for Trouble the Water

  • 2008

    Award

    Lessin and Deal receive Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance Film Festival

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