Jeanne Hallacy

Education

Equipment

My Equipment/Kit: DSLR Camera, Lavalier and Shotgun microphones, Zoom microphone, Premiere Pro

I can use: Dslr Camera, Lavalier And Shotgun Microphones, Zoom Microphone, Premiere Pro

About me

Director, Jeanne Hallacy is a co-founder of Kirana Productions, creating human rights content for advocacy. Hallacy worked in Southeast Asia for 25 years, producing documentary stories about human rights and social justice issues. Her films are used as educational tools by civil society and institutions.

Mother, Daughter, Sister, Sittwe, This Kind of Love and Into the Current were each released with an international speaking tour in the United States and Europe where the films were screened with engaged audience discussions.

Hallacy is the Director of InSIGHT Out! digital media project for youth in conflict-affected areas. She is the former Director of Programs at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand
Sittwe—produced with Smile Education and Development Foundation—
gives voice to two teenagers separated by conflict and segregation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, Phyu Phyu Than, a Rohingya girl and Aung San Myint, a Buddhist boy. The youth share their ideas about mutual fear between their communities and the hope of reconciliation. Sittwe premiered at the Freedom Film Festival in Malaysia where it was awarded the Best Southeast Asia Short Documentary. https://www.kanopystreaming.com/product/sittwe

This Kind of Love—produced with Equality Myanmar—follows Burmese human rights educator and LGBT activist, Aung Myo Min, as he returns home after 24 years in exile. Officially selected in five international film festivals, the film received an Award of Merit in the LGBT category at the Accolade Global Film Competition and was broadcast on Democratic Voice of Burma television. Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources. http://www.der.org/films/this-kind-of-love.html

Into the Current: Burma’s Political Prisoners about the history of nonviolent resistance in Myanmar, broadcast on the Democratic Voice of Burma and officially selected in nineteen film festivals including One World and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival where it was nominated for the Social Justice Award. Distributed by Kanopy International.
https://www.kanopystreaming.com/product/current-burmas-political-prisoners

No Woman: No Peace, about equity for women in ethnic communities in Myanmar was produced for the National Democratic Institute in Washington, D.C. and screened at the awards ceremony presented to the Women’s League of Burma by stateswoman Madeleine Albright.
Mercy (meddah) follows a Thai girl who lost her family to AIDS. It was officially selected in twelve festivals and awarded the Special Jury Award in the Ojai Film Festival. Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources. www.der.org/films/mercy.htm
Burma Diary, a four-year chronicle of a refugee family displaced by war, officially screened in thirteen festivals and broadcast on the PBS Program Resource Group. Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources. www.der.org/films/burma-diary.html
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Additional information:
Hallacy is skilled in Directing, Producing, Budget management, Proposal development and donor outreach, narrative reporting, volunteer recruitment, networking for distribution, Photography, DSLR camera, familiar with Premiere Pro and Da Vinci Resolve.

Skills

Secondary Job Title	Producer
Job Titles	Script Writer, Director, Producer, Photographer, Events Management / Support
Years in industry	6+ years