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Kennedy met Bailey after graduating from Brown University.

Describing how she got into filmmaking, she shared, “I was a women’s studies major, and I had been reading in the paper about cases of pregnant women addicted to drugs and alcohol who were being incarcerated simply because they were addicted at the same time as they were pregnant.

Ultimately we sat down for over an hour. He also garnered the ‘Primetime Emmy Award’ nominations multiple times. A lot of them had actually tried to get treatment, but many programs wouldn’t accept women who were pregnant.” Finding such a serious issue was not coming out in the mainstream press, she decided to make a documentary about it.”

She continued, “So I made a film about it called Women of Substance.

Sharing her experience of questioning her mother for the documentary with an interview with POLITICO, Kennedy said, “To sit down with your parent and be able to ask them every question you’ve ever wanted to ask — that’s a pretty intense experience that feels pretty special.

Her other notable documentaries included The Fence (2010), Bobby Fisher Against the World (2011), Makers: Women Who Make America (2013), Take Every Wave: Laird in VR (2017), and Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow (2018)

Moxie Firecracker Films

In 1998, Kennedy along with filmmaker Liz Garbus co-founded Moxie Firecracker Films, which produces documentaries for numerous broadcast and cable networks, including HBO, A&E, MTV, TLC, Lifetime Television, Discovery Channel, and The Sundance Channel.

Initially, Kennedy was reluctant to make the intensely personal film, but she would later decide to do so after then president of HBO's Documentary Films, Sheila Nevins, insisted on her for the making of Ethel. At the time, he had won five out of six presidential primaries. When I interviewed him he was 89 years old and he had minute-by-minute recollection of the events that took place during that last 24 hours.

She explained, “My hesitation was that there was that since so much had already been done on Vietnam in terms of coverage and documentaries, frankly, I didn’t know if I could add anything new. She was initially reluctant to make the documentary since issues of Vietnam were already covered widely. She elaborated, “He was challenging to get.

In 1997, he relocated to New York City and began his writing career in 1999. There wasn’t a lot of tolerance for feeling like a victim, or feeling sorry for yourself.”

When she was still a teenager, Kennedy and her brother were arrested during a protest outside the South African Embassy. In 2013, she won ‘Outstanding Director - News/Non-Fiction’ for Ethel.

Kennedy received the ‘Audience Award’ twice at Nantucket Film Festival under the category ‘Best Feature’ in 2012 for Ethel and in 2014 for Last Days in Vietnam.

She received the ‘Documentary Award’ for her first feature documentary, American Hollow, in 1999. And there are lessons we can learn from this story as we struggle to get out of Iraq.”

According to Kennedy, the documentary is not only targeted towards people who did not experience the evacuation operation but also towards people who experienced it since they were unaware of the truths.

Furthermore, Kennedy won the ‘Women’s Image Network Award’ for ‘Outstanding Film Directed by a Woman’ for Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow in 2019. “I also grew up with family who had a real sense of gratitude for the life we have, and for all the extraordinary gifts.