Tia Lessin

director of “The Janes”

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Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and co-director of the new documentary Citizen Koch

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HBO’s new documentary, “The Janes,” details an underground collective of women who provided safe abortions in Chicago before Roe v. Wade.

The Janes: Covert collective of women risked it all for safe abortions

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Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmakers of Trouble The Water, were thrilled when they were promised money and a public broadcast audience from ITVS for their…

'Citizen Koch'

Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmakers of Trouble The Water, were thrilled when they were promised money and a public broadcast audience from ITVS for their…

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Citizen Koch filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal on why their deal with public television fell apart; Jenny Radelet tells a tale of a film that found a marketing partnership through…

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