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Reel/Bio — Hazel Gurland-Pooler. Hazel is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Born in Colombia, Hazel is a NYC-based filmmaker who shares the stories of women from underrepresented communities fighting to overcome intersectional injustice historically and today.
Hazel Gurland-Pooler. Storming Caesars Palace. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. My Everyday Hustle.
DONATE. Back to Filmmakers. Hazel Gurland-Pooler. Hazel was born in Bogotá, Colombia and raised in New York City. After graduating from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she worked in long-form television production for ABC News, A&E, PBS/Frontline, HBO, and HISTORY.
Hazel Gurland-Pooler - Director/Producer/Co-Writer - Gurland Documentaries, LLC | LinkedIn. Director/Producer, Storyteller, Filmmaker. New York, New York, United States. 572...
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This feature-length documentary uplifts the story of 1970s Las Vegas activist Ruby Duncan and a band of ordinary mothers who launched one of the most extraordinary, yet forgotten, Black feminist anti-poverty movements in U.S. history, offering a blueprint today for an equitable future.
A film by Hazel Gurland-Pooler, 2022, 86 min, Color. STORMING CAESARS PALACE chronicles the extraordinary life of Ruby Duncan, an activist who fights the welfare system and becomes a White House advisor. Ruby, along with Mary Wesley, Alversa Beals, and low-income mothers across the country form the National Welfare Rights Organization to fight ...
Dec 13, 2023 · Take the subject of filmmaker Hazel Gurland-Pooler’s new feature-length documentary Storming Caesars Palace, Ruby Duncan. A key figure in the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), Las Vegas single mother Duncan took her protests not just to the streets, but to the casino floors and restaurants of Sin City’s ritziest hotels.
