Support Our Advertisers! Debra Chasnoff is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker (for Deadly Deception— General Electric, Nuclear Weapons & Our Environment, a crucial component of a successful international grassroots campaign to pressure GE out of the nuclear-weapons industry) whose work has fueled progressive social-change movements. Chasnoff is president and senior producer at GroundSpark, a national non-profit documentary and activist education company. Her producing and directing credits include a group of films focused on youth: Straightlaced—How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up, about the gender and sexuality struggles teens face today; Lets Get Real about young teens experiences with name-calling; Thats a Family!, which looks at family diversity from a kids perspective; the landmark documentary It's Elementary—Talking About Gay Issues in School; and it's ten-year follow-up, It's STILL Elementary. SnowbizNow with Nicholas Snow! Small screen. Big queen. Worldwide audience! Twitter SnowbizNow.com HuffPost Actor Info Advertise/Donate
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