Leslie Cockburn

Producer and Director, "American Casino"
September 30, 2009 - 4:00pm
Film Studies Coffee with Leslie Cockburn and Andrew Cockburn (Co-producer)
Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208 See map
53 Wall Street

6:30pm to 9:00pm
Screening of “American Casino” (2009)

8:10pm
Q & A with the filmmakers after first screening

Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
53 Wall Street

About Leslie Cockburn

Leslie Cockburn was born in San Francisco and is a graduate of Yale University (MC ’74). She began her documentary film career in 1980 at CBS Reports. She directed and produced several films for PBS Frontline, including Inside the Cartels (1990) and The War We Left Behind (1991). She directed and produced Peter Jennings Reporting From the Killing Fields (1990). Her awards include the Robert F. Kennedy Award, the George Polk Award, the Columbia Dupont Award, the Overseas Press Club Award and the Emmy.

In 1997, Ms. Cockburn co-produced The Peacemaker starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman. She was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton and has produced dozens of segments for 60 Minutes, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Colombia, Zimbabwe, and Russia.

She began work on American Casino in January 2008, when she and her husband Andrew, who co-produced the film, recognized the signs of a potentially devastating financial collapse from the subprime meltdown.

She lives in Washington, DC.