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Rebecca Haimowitz

Rebecca Haimowitz is the Co-Director/Producer of Made in India, a documentary film about outsourcing surrogate mothers to India that premiered in May 2010 at the Hot Docs Film Festival, and continues to screen at film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. She received her MFA in Filmmaking from Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts. Rebecca has directed various short documentary films, including a piece for the Barnard Center for Research on Women about feminist work in the prison abolition movement; a youth-produced series on over-policing in NYC schools (made for the NYCLU); and Soundproof, about cochlear implants and deafness in her family. Rebecca is committed to creating documentary and narrative films that reveal the human side behind social and political issues.