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Helen Whitney is an American producer, director and writer of documentaries and feature films that have aired on PBS, HBO, ABC and NBC. Whitney's subjects have included youth gangs, the 1996 American presidential candidates, a Trappist monastery in Massachusetts, the McCarthy Era in the United States, Pope John Paul II, and the late ...
Oscar nominated, Emmy and Peabody award-winning, film producer, director and writer Helen Whitney has been a prolific creator of documentaries and feature films.
“ Whitney’s ability to wrestle with our most immense uncertainties is astonishing. This is a transformative film for the ages. ” — Andrew Solomon, President of PenAmerica, author Far From the Tree and The Noonday Demon
"By letting those facing and affected by death speak their own stories, Whitney gives new lyrical insight to this often taboo topic." – The Austin Chronicle "Whitney's film is one of the first major documents of the Death Positive movement."
Nov 27, 2012 · Helen Whitney’s sojourn to document spirituality has led her through the United States, Europe and beyond. It has also led her to Flagler College, where she recently delivered a four-part speech that discussed her life through the prism of the films she has written, produced and directed.
Helen is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and has presented her films and lectured at universities, museums and churches and seminaries around the country (including Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Pomona, Claremont, Brigham Young, Stanford, the National Cathedral, the Corcoran Gallery, the Minneapolis Art Institute, Wesley Seminary, Union Theological Seminary).
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Apr 14, 2011 · An interview with Helen Whitney, director of the new PBS documentary, Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate. By Jason Marsh | April 14, 2011. When Helen Whitney was first approached about directing a film on forgiveness, she thought she’d be too exhausted to pull it off.
