HELEN WHITNEY
PAST BOARD MEMBER (2019-2023)
THE ASSOCIATION OF FOREIGN PRESS CORRESPONDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES
Helen Whitney
Helen Whitney is an award-winning filmmaker with over forty years of experience producing dramatic features and documentary films which have appeared on all the major networks: NBS, ABC, PBS, HBO. Her subjects have stretched across a broad spectrum of topics including youth gangs; Among her many awards: an Oscar nomination, the Peabody, the Emmy, the DuPont, the Edward.R.Murrow Journalism Award, the Humanitas Prize, the Director's Guild and The Writers Guild Awards.
Her films have been selected at national and international film festivals, and she was invited to participate as director/writer at the 1982 Sundance Film Festival. She has presented her films and lectured at various universities, churches, and museums including Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Pomona, Stanford, Harvard Divinity School, The National Cathedral, the Corcoran Gallery. Her recent book: "Forgiveness; A Time to Love and a Time to Hate" was praised by the Dalai Lama who wrote the Forward.
She served as a member and Chairman of the Board of Film Forum, 1986-1991. She was a member of the Board for New York Women in Film in 1983. She has been a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows since 2001. Helen Whitney lives in New York City. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and her MA in Victorian Literature from the University of Chicago.