Anne de Mare

Documentary Filmmaker

Bio: Anne is an Emmy-Award winning documentary filmmaker and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Media and Journalism Grant. Her film The Homestretch explored the realities of youth homelessness and received a 2015 Emmy for Outstanding Long Form Reporting (Independent Lens). More recently, Anne produced and directed the acclaimed documentary feature Capturing The Flag and was Co-Producer on the PBS documentary Deej (America ReFramed), winner of the prestigious 2017 Peabody Award. She has been a Sundance Institute Fellow, part of the U.S. State Department’s American Film Showcase program, and an Associate Artist with Chicago’s legendary Kartemquin Films. Her work has been supported by MacArthur Foundation, Sundance Institute, Carnegie Corporation of New York, ITVS, Chicken & Egg Pictures, and POV/American Documentary Inc. (among others). Anne’s first feature, Asparagus! Stalking the American Life, explored the relationship between asparagus farmers in rural western Michigan and the changing global economy. That film was winner of the 2006 W.K. Kellogg Good Food Film Award as well as Audience Choice and Best Documentary awards at festivals across the country. In 2010 and 2011, she worked closely with the late, great historian Michael Nash and NYU Bobst Libraries to create an extensive filmed archive of women who worked in munitions factories during WWII, accessible online as The Real Rosie The Riveter Project. Together with her long-time film partner Kirsten Kelly, Anne runs Spargel Productions, where they are currently in development for a documentary exploring the cycle of male violence against women, and, together with producer Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, recently premiered The Girl With the Rivet Gun, a dynamic animated documentary short based on personal histories of real-life Rosie the Riveters (Jury’s Choice Award, 2020 Black Maria Film Festival).