Academy Award® nominee James Spione's last film, the whistleblower documentary Silenced, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was nominated for an Emmy® in 2016. His previous work, Incident in New Baghdad, won Best Documentary Short at Tribeca and earned an Academy Award® nomination. Mr. Spione's other films include American Farm, about the demise of his family's fifth-generation homestead in central New York State; as well as a continuing series of short docs exploring the Eastern Shore of Virginia, one of the few remaining rural coastal regions in the continental United States. Spione has also written and directed a number of fiction films, including the Sundance favorite, Garden.
Tribeca Film Festival