Biography

Robin Honan is an Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker and co-produced Cynthia Wade's Academy Award®-winning documentary FREEHELD. Her Oscar®-nominated, HBO film MONDAYS AT RACINE celebrates a Long Island hair salon that offers free services to women undergoing cancer treatment, helping them restore a sense of beauty following the ravages of chemotherapy. Robin also produced the Sundance Channel feature length documentary LIVING THE LEGACY, which follows a year in the life of a free private school for under-resourced students founded by chocolatier Milton Hershey over one hundred years ago. In 2013, she produced the viral 3-minute documentary FIRE WITH FIRE, and with director Ross Kauffman is in post-production on a feature length documentary based on the same remarkable oncology team and their courageous clinical trial patients. Leading up to the 2016 election, Robin produced the ESPN documentary THE CONTESTED CONVENTION with director Stephanie Wang-Breal. Robin also directs short documentaries for a wide range of philanthropic and non-profit organizations.
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