Laurie’s independent film company, Blueberry Hill Productions, was founded in 1992. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she worked on many award-winning documentary series, including AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (Senior Associate Producer), Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 (Senior Researcher), and Frontline Special Report: Crisis in Central America (Assistant Producer).

Before working in film, she worked in radio for NPR’s evening news program All Things Considered. She has also edited books for MIT Press, written film reviews for the Times Literary Supplement and Time Out, and taught philosophy at Harvard and Tufts.

ROBIN HESSMAN (Co-Producer) is a director/producer of documentary films and educational television. Her Academy Award-winning documentary film, Portrait of Boy with Dog, is the story of Gosha, an imaginative 13-year-old street child in Moscow. It has won numerous prizes in international film festivals, and has aired on television in eight countries. During her many years living in Moscow, Robin worked for the Children’s Television Workshop as the on-site Producer of Ulitsa Sezam, the original Russian language Sesame Street. Since returning to the United States in 1999, she has produced pieces for WGBH in Boston and for the History Channel. She has also programmed the Russian film series for Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.