Carol Dysinger

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Carol Dysinger
Occupation(s)Director, educator
Known for Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
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Carol Dysinger is an American educator and director, best known for directing Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) , which won both an Oscar for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2020 [1] [2] and a BAFTA for best short.[ citation needed ] She teaches at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. [3]

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Career

Dysinger began filming on location in Afghanistan in 2005 in what would become her Afghan trilogy. Her first documentary, Camp Victory, Afghanistan completed in 2010, documents the struggles of national guard units training an Afghan National Army. When it premiered at the Lincoln Center in June 2010, Jim Dwyer of the New York Times wrote that the film "crackles with the emotional energy and intelligence of its subjects." [4]

Dynsinger's short film on Afghan girls skateboarding in Kabul, Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) , received both a BAFTA for best short[ citation needed ] and an Oscar for best documentary (short subject). [1] Dysinger's 2024 film One Bullet is her third documentary on Afghanistan and follows the story of a mother grieving her murdered son. The film premiered at DocEdge in Belgium and subsequently won best international documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh.[ citation needed ]

In 2018, Dysinger was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on war and story. She currently works as an associate professor of film at New York University. [3]

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