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SPEAKER BIOS is the author of Working With Available Light: A Family’s World After Violence and the editor of A Worthy Tradition: Free Speech in America by his father Harry Kalven Jr. He has reported extensively on police abuse in Chicago and was the plaintiff in Kalven v. Chicago, in which the Illinois appellate court ruled that police misconduct files are public information. He has received the 2015 George Polk Award for Local Reporting and the 2016 Ridenhour Courage Prize. is the executive director of the International Documentary Association. In 2016, Kilmurry joined the board of jurors of the George Foster Peabody Awards. He serves as an international advisor to the Greenhouse Fund and is on the board of screeners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. AAs long-serving executive producer of POV | American Documentary, he received 15 Emmy Awards, more than 60 Emmy nominations, six George Foster Peabody Awards, four DuPont Columbia Awards, and is a two-time recipient of the Best Continuing Series Award from the IDA. is an award-winning director and cinematographer who has completed over 50 documentaries for cinema and TV. In 2009, he photographed the award-winning documentary JANE’S JOURNEY, about the chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards in 2012. Additional works include VATICAN: THE HIDDEN WORLD AND GAS MONOPOLY, an investigative thriller about the international gas industry, which he directed and photographed. s most recent feature documentary film NUTS! premiered at Sundance 2016, where it won a Special Jury Prize for Editing. Her debut feature documentary OUR NIXON premiered at Rotterdam, had its North American premiere at SXSW, won the Ken Burns Award for “Best of the Festival” at Ann Arbor, and was selected as the Closing Night Film at New Directors/New Films. DoubleExposureFestival.com 37