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| Born | January 5, 1954 New York City, U.S. |
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June Cross is an American documentary film director and producer. [1] [2]
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| Born | January 5, 1954 New York City, U.S. |
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June Cross is an American documentary film director and producer. [1] [2]
Cross was born in New York City. She is the daughter of James Cross, half of the vaudeville team of Stump and Stumpy and Norma Booth, an actor. [3] She is the stepdaughter of comedian and actor Larry Storch; and her half sister is the actor Lynda Gravatt. [4] She attended public school in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and graduated from Atlantic City High School in 1971. She attended Harvard- Radcliffe College, and graduated in 1975. [5]
Cross started her career as a copygirl at The Press of Atlantic City while still in college. After graduation, she got a job at WGBH-TV for the broadcast Say Brother . [5] She moved to New York City to take a job as a reporter at the PBS NewsHour in 1979, and eventually became a Producer/Correspondent there. Her work covering the Grenada Invasion won a 1983 News & Documentary Emmy Award. She left the NewsHour in 1986, for a job as a producer for West 57th at CBS News. [6] She also worked as a producer for Face to Face with Connie Chung, America Tonight , and The CBS Evening News .
In 1991, Cross joined PBS' Frontline , where she produced eight documentaries. Her first documentary, A Kid Kills, won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 1993. [7] In 1996, she co-directed and produced, Secret Daughter, which won a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 1997 and the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in 1998. [8] A memoir by the same title was published by Viking in 2006.
In 2001, Cross joined the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where in 2010, she founded the documentary specialization. [9] She received an honorary degree from Knox College in 2015. [10] Her PBS Frontline documentary, Whose Vote Counts, won a Peabody Award in 2020. [11]
| Year | Title | Contribution | Note |
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| 1992 | A Kid Kills | Producer | Documentary |
| 1994 | Showdown in Haiti | Writer and producer | Documentary |
| 1995 | The Confessions of RosaLee | Director and producer | Documentary |
| 1996 | Secret Daughter | Co-director and producer | Documentary |
| 1998 | The Two Nations of Black America | Writer and producer | Documentary |
| 1999 | Russian Roulette | Director, writer and producer | Documentary |
| 2003 | This Far by Faith | Director and producer | Documentary |
| 2009 | The Old Man and the Storm | Director, writer and co-producer | Documentary |
| 2013 | Two American Families | Producer | Documentary |
| 2015 | Wilhemina's War | Director, writer and producer | Documentary |
| 2020 | Whose Vote Counts | Director and writer | Documentary |
| Year | Result | Award | Category | Work | Ref. |
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| 1997 | Won | News & Documentary Emmy Awards | Outstanding Informational or Cultural Programming - Programs | Secret Daughter | [10] |
| 2017 | Nominated | Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary | Wilhemina's War | [12] | |
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