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The new doc ‘RBG’ chronicles the life of the trailblazing Supreme Court justice. Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen write about their experience trailing Ginsburg for two years.
Betsy West is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and educator. She was executive producer of the Makers documentary and digital project, the feature documentary The Lavender Scare and the short doc 4%: Film’s Gender Problem. She is a principal at Storyville Films where she co-produced Constantine’s Sword. A producer and executive for over two decades at ABC News, West received 21 Emmy® Awards and two duPont-Columbia Awards for her work on “Nightline” and “PrimeTimeLive” and the documentary program ”Turning Point,” where she served as executive producer. As senior vice president at CBS News from 1998-2005, she oversaw “60 Minutes” and “48 Hours,” and was executive in charge of the CBS documentary 9/11, winner of the Primetime Emmy® Award in 2002.
Julie Cohen has directed and produced eight feature documentaries, including The Sturgeon Queens, which screened at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival and 60 others, winning 10 Audience Choice Awards; American Veteran, which screened at 20 festivals and won the 2017 Panavision Showcase Award for New York filmmakers; and I Live to Sing, which won the 2014 New York Emmy® Award for Best Arts Program, one of three New York Emmys® she has won since 2012. Before starting her own production company Better Than Fiction, Cohen was a staff producer at NBC News for nine years, where she won the Individual Achievement Award for Best News Producer from American Women in Radio and Television (Gracie Award). In the 1990s she created and produced Court TV’s weekly program Supreme Court Watch.