Janice Engel
- Producer
- Director
- Editor
Winner of SXSW Audience Award and garnering numerous festival awards, Janice Engel's Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins was picked by Rotten Tomatoes as one of the Best Movies Directed by Women in the 21st century.
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins had its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures. Opening in 1,000 theaters across the United States, it had an 18-week run nationwide from Alabama to Alaska. It premiered in the UK and Ireland via Modern Films and is now streaming on multiple platforms.
Engel has applied her diversified talents to create numerous documentaries, non-fiction television series and specials for major media companies in the United States including...
Jackson Browne: Going Home (Director, Editor): TV Series; Visualize / The Disney Channel - Feature length documentary with Jackson Browne. Winner of the Cable ACE Award for "Best Music Special of the Year."
Ted Hawkins: Amazing Grace (Producer, Director, Writer, Editor): Feature Documentary; CoBalt Films / Geffen-MCA - independently produced on the Geffen Records AR. Winner of the "Rose d'Or Festival Special Jury Prize for Human Values."
Addicted (Director, Showrunner): Television Series; Discovery. Winner of the Prism Award - Documentary What We Carry (Executive Producer, Director, Editor): An multi-media educational series dedicated to preserving Holocaust survivors' stories. Premiered at The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, it is in the permanent collection at Yad Vashem in Israel.
Engel is a member of the International Documentary Association and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She was invited to be a creative advisor for Film Independent's Amplifier Fellowship and lectured at Film Independent's Documentary Story Lab.
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins had its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures. Opening in 1,000 theaters across the United States, it had an 18-week run nationwide from Alabama to Alaska. It premiered in the UK and Ireland via Modern Films and is now streaming on multiple platforms.
Engel has applied her diversified talents to create numerous documentaries, non-fiction television series and specials for major media companies in the United States including...
Jackson Browne: Going Home (Director, Editor): TV Series; Visualize / The Disney Channel - Feature length documentary with Jackson Browne. Winner of the Cable ACE Award for "Best Music Special of the Year."
Ted Hawkins: Amazing Grace (Producer, Director, Writer, Editor): Feature Documentary; CoBalt Films / Geffen-MCA - independently produced on the Geffen Records AR. Winner of the "Rose d'Or Festival Special Jury Prize for Human Values."
Addicted (Director, Showrunner): Television Series; Discovery. Winner of the Prism Award - Documentary What We Carry (Executive Producer, Director, Editor): An multi-media educational series dedicated to preserving Holocaust survivors' stories. Premiered at The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, it is in the permanent collection at Yad Vashem in Israel.
Engel is a member of the International Documentary Association and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She was invited to be a creative advisor for Film Independent's Amplifier Fellowship and lectured at Film Independent's Documentary Story Lab.
