Laurel Chiten
Producer/Director

Laurel Chiten has been an independent filmmaker for over 20 years. Her credits include: Touched, which won Best Documentary at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto; THE JEW IN THE LOTUS, an ITVS-funded film about a group of rabbis who met with the Dalai Lama; and Twitch and Shout, a documentary about people living with Tourette syndrome, which was nationally broadcast in 1995 as part of the highly-acclaimed PBS series, P.O.V. Twitch and Shout was nominated for an Emmy and has received numerous other awards.

Chiten was an artist-in-residence at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. She has also received prestigious residency scholarships at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.

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