- Heather O'Neill is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. No Ordinary Life, her directorial debut on a feature documentary film, premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and premieres on CNN September 5th.
She recently produced one part of a new docuseries titled Wasteland, streaming on Paramount +.
For the Discovery Channel, she traveled to Bikini Atoll to direct and produce a shark conservation special with Philippe Cousteau Jr. She also produced the feature documentary Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi, which screened at the Hot Docs International Film Festival and film festivals around the world.
With CNN Presents, the award-winning documentary series, she directed and produced dozens of documentaries. For over a decade she spearheaded projects for CNN around the world, from melting glaciers in Greenland, to conflicts across the Middle East, to the danger journalists face covering the drug trade in Mexico.
She directed and produced CNN's Planet in Peril series, where she traveled with Dr. Sanjay Gupta across Africa and China to investigate the impact of climate change. She also produced Christiane Amanpour's award-winning film, Generation Islam. She has earned more than a dozen journalism awards, including three Emmy Awards and multiple Peabody Awards.
- IMDb mini biography by: Heather O'Neill
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