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Mary Mazzio, an award-winning documentary film director, Olympic athlete, and former law firm partner, is Founder and CEO of 50 Eggs, Inc., an independent film production company dedicated to making socially impactful films.

Mazzio wrote, directed, and produced highly-acclaimed and award-winning films, including I AM JANE DOE, narrated by Academy-Award winning actor Jessica Chastain (which catalyzed bipartisan federal legislation and was featured on The Today Show); Underwater Dreams, narrated by Michael Pena (which raised $100 million dollars with the White House for underserved students and was featured on The Colbert Report); TEN9EIGHT (called "one of the most inspirational films you will ever see" by Tom Friedman in The New York Times); A Hero for Daisy (called "a landmark film" by the New York Times, the film inspired a lawsuit that was decided years later by the US Supreme Court); Apple Pie (called "priceless" by The New York Times and "fantastic" by NPR), and I am Little Red (an animated short written with Academy-Award nominee, Alec Sokolow (Toy Story). Her newest documentary film, A Most Beautiful Thing, narrated by Academy Award-winning artist, Common, and produced with NBA stars Grant Hill and Dwyane Wade, won a 2021 Gracie Award and was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award, an NAACP Image Award, and for Best Documentary by the International Press Academy. Named one of the best films of 2021 by Esquire, the film was featured on the TODAY Show, and called "amazing" by Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times; "evocative" by The Los Angeles Times; "poignant" by The New York Times, "an absolute must watch" by Deadspin, and "one of the most important documentaries of this decade," by ChicagoNow. Other press includes The Saturday Evening Post ("The best documentaries lull you into thinking they're taking you for a nice float on a lazy stream - then abruptly suck you into a chasm of Class 5 rapids that have you holding on for dear life. That's the kind of ride we get in director Mary Mazzio's new film...").

Mazzio is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Georgetown Law School. Mary and her work have been featured on The TODAY Show, The Colbert Report, NBC Nightly News, and in The New Yorker, Esquire, Vogue, Cosmo, People Magazine, Elle, The New York Times, The Financial Times, Fortune, Time Magazine, USA Today, Business Week, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Sports Illustrated, The Economist, WIRED, The Los Angeles Times, Business Week, Variety, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, The Hollywood Reporter, The Film Journal, AP, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, the Seattle Times, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Village Voice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Forbes, CBS Early Morning, Morning Joe, ABC News Now, CNN Sunday Morning, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox Business News, PBS Nightly News Report, CNN Headline News, BBC World News, NPR, All in with Chris Hayes, ESPN's Sports Center, among others. Mary's story has been chronicled in the books One Person, Multiple Careers (by former NY Times columnist Marci Alboher) and 168 Hours (by USA Today writer Laura Vanderkam).

Awards

Mary Mazzio

Image Awards (NAACP)

Hollywood Film Festival

Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

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