Laura Paglin, Director / Producer
Laura Paglin, Director/Producer
Laura Paglin is a documentary filmmaker whose more recent films have dealt specifically with struggles of marginalized communities. No Umbrella—Election Day in the City, which brings us a street level view of election day chaos as it played out in one inner city polling location, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO. Facing Forward: A Student’s Story, which follows a charismatic but troubled teenager at a strict new inner city charter school, aired nationally on PBS. Paglin’s Unseen, tells the complex and horrific story of the Anthony Sowell serial murders that were discovered in Cleveland, Ohio in 2009. Distributed by Filmrise, Unseen has become one of the more popular documentaries on Amazon Prime, having made it to many “best of” lists. In addition to producing and directing documentary style marketing pieces at her company Creative Filmmakers, Paglin also works as a post production supervisor and editor at the Rutgers University Documentary Film Lab.