Justine Shapiro

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Justine Shapiro
Born (1963-03-20) March 20, 1963 (age 60)
South Africa
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Actress, TV travel host, documentary filmmaker, director, producer, writer
Years active1992–present
Website Justine Shapiro profile

Justine Shapiro (born March 20, 1963) is a South African-born American actress, filmmaker, writer, hostess and producer, who was one of several main hosts of the Pilot Productions travel/adventure series Globe Trekker (also called Pilot Guides in Canada and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet ).

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Television and film career

Before hosting Globe Trekker (Pilot Guides), Shapiro appeared in various roles in film and television. Eventually, she was involved in several documentaries including co-production/direction duties on 2001's Promises , which won two 2002 Emmy Awards, for Best Documentary and Outstanding Background Analysis, and was nominated for best Documentary Feature at the 74th Academy Awards. [1] [2] [3] Promises attempts to humanize the Arab–Israeli conflict by examining it in microcosm, through the eyes of seven Palestinian and Israeli children living in or near the divided city of Jerusalem. [4]

She produced and directed a feature-length documentary entitled Our Summer in Tehran. [5]

In 2013 she became host of Time Team America, shown on PBS. [6] [7]

Personal life

Shapiro was born in South Africa and grew up in Berkeley, California. [8] She is Jewish. [9]

Shapiro is a survivor of the World Airways Flight 30H airplane crash at Boston's Logan Airport on January 23, 1982. [10]

During an October 2006 broadcast of the Globe Trekker Venice City Guide episode, Shapiro revealed that she went to Tufts University (majoring in history and theater) [8] with Oliver Platt, who recognized her in the crowd while she was covering the Venice Film Festival, where Platt was promoting Casanova .

In her lead-up to a Globe Trekker visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp she stated "Like many Jewish Americans, I have Polish roots. And the Auschwitz concentration camp was where many of my relatives died during World War II." [11]

In Globe Trekker's "South Africa 2", Shapiro and co-host Sami Sabiti traveled to South Africa. While in Soweto, Shapiro visited the nanny she had as a child. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Promises (2001)". Seattle, Washington: IMDb . Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ "ITVS Celebrates 20 Years of Funding and Service to Independent Filmmakers With the ITVS Indies Showcase". We Are Movie Geeks. Lanier Media. August 1, 2001. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ Promises Project Awards.
  4. ↑ "Promises". The Hollywood Reporter . Los Angeles, California. March 15, 2002. Retrieved April 30, 2016. The movie is a collaboration among three filmmakers: Justine Shapiro, an American of South African descent; B.Z. Goldberg, an American who has lived in Israel for many years, and Carlos Bolado, a Mexican film editor. Together, they shot this effort on video, primarily between 1997 and 2000, during a period of relative calm in the region following the Oslo Accords.
  5. ↑ "Our Summer in Tehran (2009)". Seattle, Washington: IMDb . Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Justine Shapiro". PBS . Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  7. ↑ Obenson, Tambay A. (August 18, 2014). "PBS Goes on Archaeological Dig for Josiah Henson - Escaped Slave Who Inspired 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'". Indiewire . Los Angeles, California . Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  8. 1 2 Time Team America. "Host: Justine Shapiro". PBS . Arlington, Virginia . Retrieved January 23, 2015.
  9. ↑ "In Iran, Berkeley Jewish filmmaker finds plenty of love". 29 April 2011.
  10. ↑ "Washingtonpost.com: Live Online". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  11. ↑ "Globe Trekker TV Shows World War II Special". Archived from the original on December 28, 2009. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  12. ↑ Globe Trekker TV Shows: South Africa 2, Pilot TV Shows, 2007. Archived August 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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