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Stephanie Slewka
is an award- winning producer with
programs on American broadcasters such as ESPN and Fox, and international
broadcasters including the BBC, ARD German Television and TF1 French
Television.
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Slewka has produced
innumerable television features and news pieces covering topics from
national elections to the death penalty. Other topics have included
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Before her move to television,
Slewka worked in print, reporting for The Hearst Newspapers, The
London Sunday Times and People Magazine. At 24, she was Washington
Bureau Chief for Life Magazine. Having grown up in Europe, she started
her career working on air in Flemish for a pirate radio station
in Belgium.
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Her first independent documentary,
"On This Island," made on a shoestring, about a rift over
a musical on a small island in Maine was praised by Maine PBS as
"one of the best descriptions of life in rural areas in a long,
long time." The film will show
at the Santa Fe Film Festival on Dec. 7th and 8th 2001.
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A traveler at heart,
she once crossed Africa from top to bottom overland solo, and has
been to more
than fifty countries. She speaks four languages fluently and knows
her way out of scrapes of all kinds. She lives in a crumbling heap
of Victoriana in the heart of downtown Washington DC.
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